1. Anticipatory Anxiety of an Imminent Economic Collapse.
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Saez-Rodriguez, Alberto and Demin, Alexey A.
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MENTAL depression risk factors , *VIOLENCE , *POST-traumatic stress disorder , *ANALYSIS of variance , *CHI-squared test , *ECONOMICS , *INTERVIEWING , *LONGITUDINAL method , *PARENT-child relationships , *PSYCHOLOGICAL tests , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *SCALES (Weighing instruments) , *STATISTICS , *T-test (Statistics) , *VICTIMS , *DATA analysis , *MULTIPLE regression analysis , *PRE-tests & post-tests , *REPEATED measures design , *STATE-Trait Anxiety Inventory , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *GENETICS ,ANXIETY risk factors - Abstract
This article describes a prospective study of 1,200 participants, half of whom were offspring of trauma survivors, and their emotional symptom levels before and after the Corralito, an economic crisis that occurred in Argentina at the end of 2001. The authors report pre- and postcrisis data on anxiety and depression in a group of adult offspring of victims of the Dirty War (1976–1983) in an attempt to ascertain whether they are at greater risk than a control group for developing anxiety and depression in response to an economic crisis. The results indicated the offspring of war victims experienced greater emotional distress than the control subjects before, but not after the imposition of the Corralito. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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