Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Ireland.
Clin Psychol Rev. 2013 Dec;33(8):929-39. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2013.07.004. Epub 2013 Jul 22.
The present paper reviews the literature that has assessed the psychological impact of political violence on children. Concern for those growing up in situations of political violence has resulted in two areas of research within psychology: the first considers children as victims of conflict and considers the mental health consequences of political violence. The second considers children as protagonists or aggressors in conflict and considers related moral and attitudinal consequences of exposure to political violence. These two literatures are most often considered separately. Here the two strands of research are brought together using a social identity framework, allowing apparently divergent findings to be integrated into a more coherent understanding of the totality of consequences for children and young people growing up in situations of armed conflict.
本文回顾了评估政治暴力对儿童心理影响的文献。对生活在政治暴力环境中的儿童的关注导致心理学领域的两个研究方向：第一个方向将儿童视为冲突的受害者，并研究政治暴力对其心理健康的影响。第二个方向将儿童视为冲突中的主角或侵略者，并研究其接触政治暴力的相关道德和态度后果。这两个文献通常是分开考虑的。在这里，使用社会认同框架将这两个研究方向结合起来，使看似不同的发现能够整合到对生活在武装冲突中的儿童和年轻人的全部后果的更连贯的理解中。
