@article{ref1,
title="Mexican journalists: An investigation of their emotional health",
journal="Journal of Traumatic Stress",
year="2012",
author="Feinstein, Anthony",
volume="25",
number="4",
pages="480-483",
abstract="Mexican journalists are frequently the victims of violence, often drug related. The purpose of the study was to assess their mental well-being. Of 104 journalists recruited from 3 news organizations, those who had stopped working on drug-related stories because of intimidation from the criminal drug cartels (n = 26) had significantly greater social dysfunction (p = .024); and more depressive (p = .001) and higher intrusive (p = .027), avoidance (p = .005), and arousal (p = .033) symptoms than journalists living and working under threat in regions of drug violence (n = 61). They also had more arousal (p = .05) and depressive (p = .027) symptoms than journalists (n = 17) never threatened before and living in regions without a drug problem. These findings provide preliminary data on the deleterious effects of drug-related violence on the Mexican media, amplifying the concerns expressed by journalist watchdog organizations monitoring the state of the press in the country.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0894-9867",
doi="10.1002/jts.21715",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts.21715"
}