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Kashmir earthquake survivors: a psychological probe

Author:Seema Vinayak

Abstract:
A 7.6 Richter earthquake struck Kashmir region(India) on October 8, 2005, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction. As the immediate focus was on rescue and relief operations, psychological intervention for survivors went ignored. Hence, this empirical research was undertaken within four weeks of the killer quake, to investigate death anxiety, mental health, and coping in sixty subjects from the worst-affected Uri and the same number from the least-affected Srinagar, with equal number of males and females. Death anxiety scale(Thakur,and Thakur,1984); Mental health questionnaire (Verma,Wig and others, 1976); Coping scale (arver,Scheier,and Weintraub,1989) were administered, besides a semi structured interview. Results revealed higher death anxiety and poorer mental health in Uri subjects visà¶is those from Srinagar. Females were found to have poorer mental health than males. Earthquake also unraveled the underlying ethnic tensions, political affinities, disproportionate dispersal of relief goods, differential coping strategies used by the survivors and lack of psychological interventions. This study highlighted the need to have disaster management programmes in hilly remote areas of the country.