Predeployment personality traits and exposure to trauma as predictors of posttraumatic stress symptoms: A prospective study of former peacekeepers

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 157, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1115-1119

  Bramsen, Inge ^a   Dirkzwager, Anja J E ^b   Van Der Ploeg, Henk M ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SOLDIER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MMPI; NEGATIVISM; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 0033930106     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.157.7.1115     Document Type: Article

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