Positive and negative adjustment and social support of sexual assault survivors

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 905-914

  Borja, Susan E ^a   Callahan, Jennifer L ^a,b   Long, Patricia J ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VICTIM; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; LIFE EVENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RAPE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LINEAR MODELS; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RAPE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33847789014     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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