Nuclear attitudes and reactions: associations with depression, drug use, and quality of life.
Nuclear attitudes and reactions: associations with depression, drug use, and quality of life.
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核心态度和反应：与抑郁、吸毒和生活质量的关联。
DOI：
10.1037//0022-3514.50.5.906
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发表时间：
1986
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Newcomb,MD
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作者：
Newcomb,MD
40年来，世界一直面临核战争的威胁，最近又面临核电站事故的可能性。虽然几乎每一代人都必须面对各种国家或国际危机，但核战争的威胁在其破坏力方面是前所未有的。这项研究试图评估与核战争威胁和核电站事故可能性相关的态度和痛苦程度。核态度问卷（NAQ）由15个项目组成，并对722名在核时代长大的年轻人进行了调查。这些项目被发现反映了四个潜在因素的核关注，核支持，对未来的恐惧，和核否认，所有这些反过来又代表了一个二阶结构的核焦虑。与男性相比，女性对核问题的关注程度更高，对核问题的支持程度更低，对未来的恐惧程度更高，对核问题的否定程度更低。在潜在变量模型中，研究发现，核心焦虑与生活目标的减少、生活满意度的降低、无力感的增加、抑郁的增加和药物使用的增加显著相关。研究结果表明，核战争和核事故的威胁与儿童的心理困扰有显著的相关性，并可能干扰儿童的正常发育。
For 40 years the world has lived with the threat of nuclear war and, recently, with the possibility of nuclear power plant accidents. Although virtually every generation must confront various national or international crises, the threat of nuclear war is unprecedented in its destructive potential. This study is an attempt to assess attitudes and amount of distress associated with the ever-present threat of nuclear war and the possibility of accidents at nuclear power plants. The Nuclear Attitudes Questionnaire (NAQ) consists of 15 items and was administered to 722 young adults who have grown up in the nuclear age. The items were found to reflect four latent factors of nuclear concern, nuclear support, fear of the future, and nuclear denial, all of which in turn represent a second-order construct of nuclear anxiety. Women reported significantly more nuclear concern, less nuclear support, more fear of the future, and less nuclear denial than did men. In latent-variable models, nucler anxiety was found to be significantly associated with less purpose in life, less life satisfaction, more powerlessness, more depression, and more drug use. It is concluded that the threat of nuclear war and accidents is significantly related to psychological distress and may disturb normal maturational development.