The crisis support scale: Psychometric qualities and further validation

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1291-1302

  Elklit, Ask ^a   Pedersen, Susanne Schmidt ^a   Jind, Lise ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Crisis support; Post traumatic stress disorder; Social support; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035643797     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00220-8     Document Type: Article

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