Social anxiety and posttraumatic stress in combat veterans: Relations to well-being and character strengths

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 561-583

  Kashdan, Todd B ^a   Julian, Terri ^b   Merritt, Keith ^c   Uswatte, Gitendra ^d  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Veterans Administration Hospital   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Happiness; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Social anxiety; Veterans; Well being

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHARACTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RATING SCALE; SELF ESTEEM; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PHOBIA; VETERAN; WELLBEING;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHARACTER; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 32344433841     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2005.03.010     Document Type: Article

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