Relations Among Gender, Violence Exposure, and Mental Health: The National Survey of Adolescents

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 313-321

  Hanson, Rochelle F ^a   Borntrager, Cameo ^b   Self Brown, Shannon ^c   Kilpatrick, Dean G ^a   Saunders, Benjamin E ^a   Resnick, Heidi S ^a   Amstadter, Ananda ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; National Survey of Adolescents; PTSD; sexual abuse; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SEX OFFENSES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE;

EID: 58249093867     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014056     Document Type: Article

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