Hardiness, attachment style, and long term psychological distress among Israeli POWs and combat veterans

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 819-829

  Zakin, Giora ^a   Solomon, Zahava ^a   Neria, Yuval ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attachment; Hardiness; POWs; Psychiatric symptomatology; PTSD

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037395229     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00073-9     Document Type: Article

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