Posttraumatic symptoms, depression, and anxiety of flood victims: The impact of the belief in a just world

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1075-1084

  Otto, Kathleen ^a   Boos, Anne ^b   Dalbert, Claudia ^c   Schöps, Daniel ^b   Hoyer, Jürgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Just world belief; Mental health; Natural disaster; Posttraumatic symptoms

Indexed keywords

EID: 30944451750     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.11.010     Document Type: Article

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