Current affairs and the public psyche: American anxiety in the post 9/11 world

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 251-260

  Cohen, Patricia ^a   Kasen, Stephanie ^a   Chen, Henian ^a   Gordon, Kathy ^a   Berenson, Kathy ^a   Brook, Judith ^b   White, Thomas ^c  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Catastrophe; Epidemiology; Risk magnitude; Terrorist threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOLLOW UP; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM; TERRORISM; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645371270     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-006-0033-7     Document Type: Article

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