A latent variable analysis of coexisting emotional deficits in substance abusersL Alexithymia, hostility, and PTSD

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 423-428

  Handelsman, Leonard ^a   Stein, Judith A ^b   Bernstein, David P ^a   Oppenheim, Sara E ^a   Rosenblum, Andrew ^c   Magura, Stephen ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Natl Research and Devmt Institutes   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Hostility; Substance abuse; Traumatic stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0034611898     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4603(99)00010-6     Document Type: Article

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