The psychological impact of burglary |
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| Authors: | Alan Beaton Mark Cook Mark Kavanagh Carla Herrington |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Psychology , University of Wales , Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea , SA2 8PP , UK |
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| Abstract: | Abstract The GHQ-12 and POMS-BI questionnaires were administered to 20 victims of residential burglary and 20 matched control participants at two points in time. When assessed between one and two weeks after the crime, victims were more anxious, hostile, depressed, tired and confused, and experienced more psychological distress, in comparison with controls. When assessed for a second time one month later there was a general improvement in victims' psychological well-being but their scores still differed significantly from those of controls on almost all sub-seales of the questionnaires. The data suggest that the psychological impact of burglary is considerable and may last for an extended period of time. |
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| Keywords: | burglary victim GHQ-12 POMS-BI. |
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