Blog #4 (quarter 4)

Today I found an article called "The Effect of Gender Specific Social Roles on Recovery from Violent Crime Experiences". This article tells about the hypothesis that women are twice as likely to develop PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). A model including the effect family roles, socially accepted gender roles, sexual implications, sexual harrassments, etc. has been developed,. 14 women and 14 men survivors of a traumatic experience were observed and interviewed with open-ended questions. Many steps were taken in analyzing the data, and the outcome shows that women, indeed, are more likely to develop PTSD. This was a surprise to me, because I didn't think that gender really made a big difference, and I also didn't realize there were that many factors in determining how severe someone's stress will be.