Resilience-Recovery Factors in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Female and Male Vietnam Veterans: Hardiness, Postwar Social Support, and Additional Stressful Life Events

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 420-434

  King, Lynda A ^c   King, Daniel W ^d   Keane, Terence M ^d   Fairbank, John A ^b   Adams, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Boston Dept of Vet Aff Med Ctr ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TEMPERAMENT; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; VIET NAM; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TEMPERAMENT; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; VIETNAM; WAR;

EID: 0031989471     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.74.2.420     Document Type: Article

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