title: Strategies of psychological terrorism perpetrated by ETA's network: delimitation and classification.
abstract: This paper defines and analyzes the harassment perpetrated by ETA's terrorist network in the Basque Country, providing a taxonomy of its strategies of psychological violence. The usefulness of this taxonomy has been tested and contrasted by means of a content analysis of 19 testimonies of persons who were the victims of violence by the terrorist network. The taxonomy of strategies of psychological violence is made up of four dimensions that emphasize the actions on the context of the persons affected, and on their emotional state, cognitions, and behaviour. Results show the predominance of emotional and cognitive strategies. Intra-observer and inter-observer reliability analysis in coding showed a Cohen's Kappa coefficient of .92 and .87, respectively. The psychological violence analyzed in this study reflects a form of psychological terrorism that harasses and persecutes a specific sector of the population.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Barcelona, Spain. javier_martin@ub.edu
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Martín-Peña
authors.forename: Alvaro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Carballeira
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Escartín Solanelles
authors.forename: Clara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Porrúa García
authors.forename: Frans
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Willem Winkel
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D013030:Spain; D023481:Terrorism / Q000145:classification* / Q000523:psychology*