Ealuating the cultural validity of the stressful life events screening questionnaire

Violence Against Women

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1191-1213

  Green, Bonnie L ^a   Chung, Joyce Y ^a   Daroowalla, Anahita ^b   Kaltman, Stacey ^a   DeBenedictis, Caroline ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Kingsbury Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural validity; Instrument development; Interpersonal violence; Psychological trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33750452337     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801206294534     Document Type: Article

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