Depressive symptoms after trauma: Is self-esteem a mediating factor?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 735-742

  David, Melissa ^a   Ceschi, Grazia ^a   Billieux, Joël ^a   Van Der Linden, Martial ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Depression; PTSD.; Self esteem; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATURAL DISASTER; POPULATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; ROSENBERG SELF-ESTEEM SCALE; SELF ESTEEM; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STUDENT; SYMPTOM; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 54849424855     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181879dd8     Document Type: Article

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