The centrality of event scale: A measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 219-231

  Berntsen, Dorthe ^a   Rubin, David C ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Identity; Individual differences; PTSD; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY); LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 29744454534     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2005.01.009     Document Type: Article

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