Coping Self‐Efficacy and Psychological Distress Following the Oklahoma City Bombing1

By Charles C. Benight, Robert W. Freyaldenhoven, J. Hughes, J. Ruiz, Tiffany A. Zoschke, W. Lovallo. 2000

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Weighing the Costs of Disaster (2010, background): “…coping self-efficacy has been associated with better psychological adjustment, both immediately and in the months after both natural disasters (e.g., Benight & Harper, 2002; Benight et al., 1999; Kessler, Galea, Jones, & Parker, 2006; Sumer et al., 2005) and terrorist attack (Benight et al., 2000).”
Psychological First Aid (2007, background): “Promotion of self-efficacy increases people’s beliefs about their capabilities to manage the distressing events, principally through self-regulation of thought, emotions, and behavior (Benight & Harper, 2002; Benight et al., 2000; Benight et al., 1999).”
Five Essential Elements of Immediate and Mid–Term Mass Trauma Intervention: Empirical Evidence (2007, background): “Benight and colleagues (Benight, 2004; Benight et al., 2000) have noted that the more that victims of mass trauma are truly empowered, the more quickly they will move to survivor status.”