Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://ricaxcan.uaz.edu.mx/jspui/handle/20.500.11845/951
Title: Relation of mental health and community violence in youths
Authors: Gurrola Peña, Gloria Margarita
Balcázar Nava, Patricia
Esparza del Villar, Oscar Armando
Rubalcava, Norma Alicia
Rivera Heredia, María Elena
López Rosales, Fuensanta
García Sánchez, María Dolores
Samaniego Garay, Rafael Armando
Issue Date: Aug-2014
Publisher: Scientific Institute, ESI.
Abstract: The purpose of this work was to determine the relationship that exists between being a contextual witness of acts of violence in the environments closest to university students, such as the area they live in, the school they attend, and the recreational places they frequent. In order to achieve this purpose, a scale of witness of community violence was drawn up and validated, which was applied along with the list of symptoms (SCL 90-R) to 1,465 students in 6 states of the north and center of the Mexican republic. The results indicate that the students have witnessed first hand acts of violence in the area they live in, their places of recreation, and finally in their school. Likewise, significant relations were seen between witnessing violence and symptoms of somatization, phobias, anxiety, interpersonal sensitivity, obsessive compulsive behaviors, and traits of psychoticism. The foregoing leads one to believe that violence not only turn those who suffer it directly into victims, but it also takes a heavy toll on the mental health of the contextual witnesses.
URI: http://ricaxcan.uaz.edu.mx/jspui/handle/20.500.11845/951
https://doi.org/10.48779/34hp-3j63
ISSN: 1857-7881
Other Identifiers: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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