Battlefield functioning and chronic PTSD: Associations with perceived self efficacy and causal attribution

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 463-476

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

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attributional style; Combat stress reaction; Heroism; Perceived self efficacy; Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037293860     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00066-1     Document Type: Article

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