The development and psychometric evaluation of the emotional reactivity and numbing scale

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 195, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 830-836

  Orsillo, Susan M ^a   Theodore Oklota, Christina ^a   Luterek, Jane A ^b   Plumb, Jennifer ^c  

^a SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center Seattle and American Lake Veterans Affairs Medical Centers   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional numbing; Measurement; PTSD; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL REACTIVITY AND NUMBING SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RATING SCALE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VETERAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; LIFE EVENT; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 38449092758     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318156816f     Document Type: Article

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