Citation

Veronese G, Pepe A. J. Health Psychol. 2017; ePub(ePub): 1359105317720004.

Affiliation

University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105317720004

PMID

28810496

Abstract

The aim of this work was to discriminate between healthy children and children at risk of developing mental impairments by evaluating the impact on contextual and individual factors of a context characterized by war. We tested the hypothesis that a linear discriminant function composed of trauma, life satisfaction, and affect balance has the power to classify the children as community or clinical referred. Membership of the clinical-referred group was associated with poorer life satisfaction and higher levels of trauma. Community-referred profiles were associated with lesser trauma. Perceived life satisfaction regarding family and school was the main contributor to the discriminant function.

Language: en

Keywords

children; clinical group; life satisfaction; non-clinical group; war-trauma