The two-factorial symptom structure of post-traumatic stress disorder: Depression-avoidance and arousal-anxiety

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 195-210

  Maes, Michael ^a,b,c   Delmeire, Laure ^a   Schotte, Chris ^a,d   Janca, Aleksandar ^e,f   Creten, Thomas ^a   Mylle, Jacques ^g   Struyf, Anja ^h   Pison, Greet ^h   Rousseeuw, Peter J ^h  

^a Clinical Research Center for Mental Health of Antwerp   (Belgium)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^d ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^g ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Factor analysis; Incidence; Post traumatic stress disorder; Severity; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FIRE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BELGIUM; DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FIRES; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0032538994     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(98)00094-8     Document Type: Article

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