As school shootings increase, researchers are looking into devastating long-term effects that include PTSD.
Students who witness or are on campus during a school shooting are at greater risk for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, researchers have found., researchers connected with Finnish adolescents four months after another student at their school shot six students, the school nurse and the principal before fatally shooting himself. Survivors hid for hours until the campus was secure. Some reported seeing the gunman move between buildings as he sought out his targets.
The ongoing emotional turmoil impacts students' ability to attend school and plan for the future. In May 2022, thethat looked at student performance following 33 school shootings in Texas between 1995 and 2016. Like the other studies, researchers used control groups when analyzing how survivors of school shootings attended school, maintained grades and continued their post-secondary education.
Students who were a freshman, sophomore or junior at the time of the shooting made about 13 percent less income on average by age 26 than students who did not endure a school shooting. The authors concluded that being a school shooting survivor meant a person would earn $115,500 less on average in their lifetime than those who never had a gunman storm onto their campus.involved students avenging a teacher for past physical discipline.
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