The Relationships Between Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Clusters and Marital Intimacy Among War Veterans

Journal of Family Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 659-666

  Solomon, Zahava ^a   Dekel, Rachel ^b   Zerach, Gadi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

marital intimacy; POWs; PTSD; self disclosure; verbal violence

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SELF DISCLOSURE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VETERAN; VIOLENCE;

AGGRESSION; AROUSAL; COMBAT DISORDERS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PRISONERS; SELF DISCLOSURE; SPOUSE ABUSE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VETERANS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 54849415667     PISSN: 08933200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013596     Document Type: Article

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