 Children in political violenceKerry Gibson Social Science & Medicine, 1989, vol. 28, issue 7, 659-667 Abstract: There is an urgent need to conduct research into the effects of political conflict on children growing up in South Africa. This paper discusses some international literature which may be relevant to researchers in this area. The first section briefly assesses the usefulness of the background literature on children in war and disaster situations. The second section outlines some of the clinical effects of political conflict on children. The third illustrates some of the ways in which intra-personal, inter-personal and contextual factors play a role in the stress process. The fourth section incorporates previous discussion into a model for understanding the effects of political conflict on children and offers a brief critique of some of the existing research. The final section explores the implications of the international literature for the South African researcher and examines the usefulness of conducting this kind of research. Keywords: children; stress; political; violence; South; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:28:y:1989:i:7:p:659-667 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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