Posttraumatic personal growth: Validation of German versions of two questionnaires;Persönliche Reifung (Personal Growth) durch Belastungen und Traumata: Validierung zweier deutschsprachiger Fragebogenversionen

Diagnostica

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 153-162

  Maercker, Andreas ^a   Langner, Robert ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Crisis; Personal growth; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Ressources; Stress processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012248622     PISSN: 00121924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1026//0012-1924.47.3.153     Document Type: Article

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