SGER: Coping with Community-based Traumatic Events: The Columbine High School Shootings and the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks

过去的大量研究调查了人们对创伤性生活经历的反应。然而，人们对创伤的认知、社会和情感反应是如何随着时间的推移而相互作用和发展的知之甚少。此外，很少有研究关注青少年如何应对创伤性事件，几乎没有研究调查经历同样创伤性事件的家庭成员之间的异同。最近科罗拉多州利特尔顿的校园枪击案为研究这些问题提供了一个引人注目的重要背景。这项小额探索性研究的目的是记录青少年和成年人对社区创伤急性反应的可变性，以努力确定创伤长期适应的早期预测因素。利特尔顿社区的居民将立即接受采访，并在6个月和18个月后进行后续评估。本研究的结果将对理解人为灾害和自然灾害的心理后果具有理论和实际意义。

A large amount of past research has examined how people respond to traumatic life experiences. However, little is known about how cognitive, social, and emotional responses to trauma interact and develop over time. In addition, very few studies have looked at how adolescents cope with traumatic events, and almost no research has investigated the similarities and differences among family members who are experiencing the same traumatic event. The recent Littleton, Colorado school shooting offers a compelling and important context in which to study these issues. The goal of this small grant for exploratory research is to document the variability in acute responses to a community trauma among both adolescents and adults, in an effort to identify early predictors of long-term adjustment to trauma. Residents of the Littleton community will be interviewed immediately, with follow-up assessments to occur 6 months and 18 months later. Results from this study will have both theoretical and practical utility in understanding the psychological aftermath of human-made as well as natural disasters.