Self-reports of potentially traumatic experiences in an adult community sample: Gender differences and test-retest stabilities of the items in a brief betrayal-trauma survey

Journal of Trauma and Dissociation

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 39-63

  Goldberg, Lewis R ^a   Freyd, Jennifer J ^b  

^a OREGON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Abuse; Brief betrayal trauma survey; Gender differences; Traumatic event prevalence; Traumatic event retest stability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BRIEF BETRAYAL-TRAUMA SURVEY; CHILD ABUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RATING SCALE; SAMPLING; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OREGON; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33746451696     PISSN: 15299732     EISSN: 15299740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J229v07n03_04     Document Type: Article

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