Defensive and affective-emotional reactions to war: The Abkhazian war as reflected in people's subjective reactions

Psychological Reports

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 135-143

  Hentschel, Uwe ^a   Sumbadze, Nana ^b   Sadzaglishvili, Shorena ^b   Mamulashvili, Maia ^b   Ulumberashvili, Shorena ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b University of Tbilisi

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; COMBAT DISORDERS; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; WAR; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0030074750     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1996.78.1.135     Document Type: Article

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