The relationship between gender and trauma symptoms: A proposed mediational model

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 203-213

  Swickert, Rhonda ^a   DeRoma, Virginia ^b   Saylor, Conway ^b  

^a School of Business   (United States)

^b THE CITADEL   (United States)

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