Is terror gender-blind? Gender differences in reaction to terror events

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 947-954

  Solomon, Zahava ^a   Gelkopf, Marc ^b   Bleich, Avraham ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b LEV HASHARON MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coping behavior; Epidemiology; Gender differences; PTSD; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SECURITY; SOCIAL STATUS; TERRORISM; THREAT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SEX FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TERRORISM;

EID: 30944458089     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-005-0973-3     Document Type: Article

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