Exposure to Community Violence:Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms, Impairment Functioning and Achievement Motivation among Grade 8th and 10th Adolescents

Community violence is recognized a significant public health problem. Exposure to family and community violence is linked with posttraumatic stress symptoms and difficulties in academic motivation in adolescents. The present study aimed to examine the post traumatic stress disorder symptom (PTSD), impairment functioning of PTSD Symptoms and academic motivation of Grade 8th and Grade 10th students (boys and girls) residing in Jammu city. A cross-sectional data of 160 students i.e. 80 for grade 8th& 80 for grade 10th, were selected through purposive sampling. Results have shown significant difference on PTSD symptoms between Grade 8th and Grade 10th students. It was also found that Grade 8th girls and Grade 10th boys have PTSD symptoms and Impairment functioning, as well as high Achievement motivation . No other significant difference was found. Keeping these figures in mind we need to focus on those factors those help to recover and motivate the adolescents in spite of exposure to chronic adversity.