Posttraumatic stress disorder in a national sample of female and male Vietnam veterans: Risk factors, war-zone stressors, and resilience-recovery variables

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 164-170

  King, Daniel W ^a,e   King, Lynda A ^a   Keane, Terence M ^a   Foy, David W ^b   Fairbank, John A ^c,d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS; VIET NAM; WAR;

EID: 0032974729     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.108.1.164     Document Type: Article

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