Sunday, December 20, 2009

Study by Capella University Faculty Member Following 9/11 Attacks Shows New Yorkers' Desire for Vengeance Among Lowest in Nation

Dr. Curtis Brant co-directed civic analysis of 1,142 Americans that explores how we coped with the attacks.

Minneapolis, MN -- A civic abstraction co-directed by Capella University adroitness affiliate Dr. Curtis Brant has begin that the admiration for avengement a allotment of New Yorkers afterward the Sept. 11, 2001, agitator attacks was a allotment of the everyman in the nation.

Dr. Brant conducted the abstraction with Dr. Michael Johll of The Johll Consulting Group about one ages afterwards Sept. 11, 2001. Titled “Coping efforts from the September 11th agitator attack,” the abstraction complex contiguous surveys with 1,142 Americans from above the continental United States, including New York City. According to Brant, he accomplished the abstraction to analyze the role acceptance plays in how Americans cope with above disasters and whether or not it contributes to our success in arresting with such events.

“We capital to get the antecedent acknowledgment so that it was beginning in people’s minds how they were arresting with it. People were actual accommodating to allocution and actual accommodating to ample out the survey,” he says. “We did become actual invested in the abstraction because we talked with anybody at breadth about their experiences. It was a actual acute anniversary that we were there in New York.”

It was while in New York that Brant and Johll calm the a lot of arresting responses to the survey. Compared to analysis participants in added areas of the country, New Yorkers bidding the everyman admiration for avengement in acknowledgment to the attacks. Respondents in added east bank states bidding a almost top admiration for vengeance, but not New Yorkers.

“It was so hasty and unexpected. That was the affair that stood out to us,” Brant says. “It was still a very, actual absolute accident one ages later. Because of accepting anon accomplished by it … I anticipate that New Yorkers were abundant beneath accommodating to ambition this on anyone else, because they lived through the devastation. I like to point to a accurate firefighter who said, ‘I wouldn’t ambition this on anyone, what happened to us.’”

Brant, who is a amount adroitness with Capella University’s School of Human Services, said the all-embracing after-effects of the abstraction appearance that there were added similarities than not in how Americans coped with the contest of Sept. 11, 2001. However, those who appear application religious arresting methods, such as relying on clergy or others in their acceptance communities, appeared to accept added success in arresting with the attacks.

“We were absorbed to see if those humans who relied on religious forms of arresting fared better, mentally and physically, afterwards the accident than those who did not. Generally what we begin is that humans who acclimated religious forms of arresting had bigger outcomes. They were beneath depressed. They got over the accident quicker and accept bigger concrete health.”

The analysis consisted of a 10-page check with a absolute of about 300 questions. Brant and Johll are currently alive on a book that data their adventures in administering the study.

About Capella University
Founded in 1993 to serve alive adults and employers, Capella University is an online accredited* bookish institution. Capella offers alum amount programs in business, advice technology, education, animal casework and psychology, additional a available of science with 10 specializations in business and advice technology. The university currently serves added than 13,000 enrolled learners from all 50 states and 57 countries. More than 100 arch corporations acclaim Capella to their employees. Capella is a civic baton in online education, committed to accouterment high-caliber bookish arete and advancing counterbalanced business growth. Capella is a wholly-owned accessory of Capella Education Company, headquartered in Minneapolis. For added information, appointment http://www.capella.edu or alarm
1-888-CAPELLA (227-3552).

*Capella University is accepted by The Higher Learning Commission and a affiliate of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, amid at 30 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 60602-2504, (312) 263-0456, www.ncahigherlearningcommission.org.

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