PTSD reactions and coping responses of East Coast and West Coast American airlines flight attendants after September 11: A possible psychological contagion effect?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 876-879

  Lating, Jeffrey M ^a   Sherman, Martin F ^a   Lowry, Jenny L ^a   Everly Jr , George S ^a,b   Peragine, Traci F ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Flight attendants; Psychological contagion; PTSD; September 11; Terrorist attacks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRPLANE CREW; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TERRORISM; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 10644264338     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000146882.23203.23     Document Type: Article

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