Coping Style Use Predicts Posttraumatic Stress and Complicated Grief Symptom Severity Among College Students Reporting a Traumatic Loss

Journal of Counseling Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 344-350

  Schnider, Kimberly R ^a   Elhai, Jon D ^a   Gray, Matt J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

bereavement; complicated grief; coping behavior; posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATH ANALYSIS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER;

EID: 34548853390     PISSN: 00220167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0167.54.3.344     Document Type: Article

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