Adjustment to war captivity: The role of sociodemographic background, trauma severity, and immediate responses, in the long-term mental health of Israeli ex-pows

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 229-246

  Neria, Yuval ^a   Solomon, Zahava ^a   Dekel, Rachel ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adjustment; COR theory; Immediate responses; Prisoners of war (POWs); Sociodemographic background; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034336730     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800008549264     Document Type: Article

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