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<br />69 <br /> <br />Benight <br /> <br />Oklahoma City <br /> <br />The last study was an investigation of whether CSE appraisals would be <br />valuable in determining psychological distress following a very different type <br />of disaster-the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City. <br />With this study, a new CSE measure was created to reflect the types of <br />demands that victims of this tragedy would be facing (see Table 2). <br />Twenty-seven victims were recruited two months after the bombing, found <br />through local businesses within a five-mile radius around the bombing site. <br />The mean age of this sample was 41 years, and, of these individuals, 48% <br />were men and 52 % were women. The mean income range reported for <br />sample one was between $40,000 and $45,000 per-year. Educationally, 7% <br />reported a high school education, 26% some college, 37% college graduate, <br />and 30 % graduate education. Ethnically, almost the entire sample was <br />Caucasian, with only 3 % African American and 3 % Native American. As <br />with Hurricane Andrew, participants responded to an interview, filled out a <br />series of questionnaires, and provided urine specimens. As with the other <br />four studies, perceptions of CSE were found to be highly predictive of <br />reported psychological distress. <br />Thus, in five different samples under a variety of traumatic situations, <br />perceptions of CSE have been found to be important in understanding the <br />psychological reactions of people as they attempt to "get things back to <br />normal." What implications do these findings have for the disaster response <br />community? And, more specifically, what do these results suggest for mental <br />health response teams attempting to intervene following a major traumatic <br />event? <br /> <br />Coping Self-Efficacy Scale for a Terrorist Bombing <br /> <br />This assessment is designed to have you think about important issues related <br />to dealing with the bombing. For each of the situations described below, you <br />are asked to rate how confident you are that you can successfully deal with <br />them. Because people differ from each other in the way that they are dealing <br />with the crisis there is no single correct response. The following items refer <br />to specific behaviors. Please think about yourself currently, not as it was the <br />day of the bombing. Using the following scale, please rate how capable you <br />think you are to <br /> <br />Table 2: <br />