Construct Validation of the Dutch Version of the Impact of Event Scale

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 16-26

  Van Der Ploeg, Eleonore ^a   Mooren, Trudy T M ^a   Van Der Velden, Peter G ^b   Kleber, Rolf J ^a,c   Brom, Danny ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Institute for Psychotrauma   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d HERZOG HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COMBAT DISORDERS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISASTERS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 1542405302     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.16.1.16     Document Type: Article

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