Relationships between self-reported potentially traumatizing events, psychoform and somatoform dissociation, and absorption, in two non-clinical populations

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 39, Issue 11-12, 2005, Pages 982-988

  Näring, Gerard ^a   Nijenhuis, Ellert R S ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Mental Health Care   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absorption; Somatoform and psychoform dissociation; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STUDENTS;

EID: 33745204177     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1614.2005.01701.x     Document Type: Article

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