The effects of terrorism on teens' perceptions of dying: the new world is riskier than ever.
Adolescents assessed after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks perceived the risk of dying from general causes, a tornado, and an earthquake as dramatically higher than did adolescents assessed years before the attacks. Adolescents' heightened perceptions of vulnerability to death extended beyond the terrorist acts, and generalized to unrelated risks.
Halpern-Felsher
Bonnie L
BL
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94118, USA.
Millstein
Susan G
SG
D000293:Adolescent; D002140:California; D002648:Child; D003643:Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012938:Social Perception; D023481:Terrorism / Q000523:psychology*