Event-list construction and treatment of exposure data in research on political violence

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 507-517

  Netland, Marit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIOLENCE; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOPATHY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; POLITICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRESSION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33749166531     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20059     Document Type: Article

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