Duty-related stressors and PTSD symptoms in suburban police officers

Psychological Reports

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 835-845

  Robinson, Holly M ^b   Sigman, Melissa R ^b   Wilson, John P ^a  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONALITY TEST; POLICE; POPULATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STATISTICS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POLICE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBURBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0031308559     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1997.81.3.835     Document Type: Article

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