Cross-cultural validation of measures of traumatic symptoms in groups of asylum seekers from Chechnya, Afghanistan, and West Africa

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1101-1114

  Renner, Walter ^a   Salem, Ingrid ^a   Ottomeyer, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Asylum seekers; Diagnostics; PTSD; Social adaptation self evaluation scale; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751436568     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2006.34.9.1101     Document Type: Article

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