Dimensionality of the posttraumatic stress response among police officers and fire fighters: An evaluation of two self-report scales

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 213-228

  Witteveen, Anke B ^a,b   Van Der Ploeg, Eleonore ^b   Bramsen, Inge ^a,b   Huizink, Anja C ^c   Slottje, Pauline ^a,d   Smid, Tjabe ^a,e   Van Der Ploeg, Henk M ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d KLM Health Services ^*  (Netherlands)

^e KLM Health Services   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Factor structure; IES; Posttraumatic stress; SRIP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FIRE FIGHTER; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; POLICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF REPORT; SLEEP DISORDER; STRESS; VALIDITY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FIRES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33645023778     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2005.09.001     Document Type: Article

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