Sense of coherence moderates late effects of early childhood Holocaust exposure

Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1352-1367

  van der Hal van Raalte, Elisheva A M ^a   van IJzendoorn, Marinus H ^b   Bakermans Kranenburg, Marian J ^b  

^a AMCHA   (Israel)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Holocaust; Post traumatic stress diagnostic scale; Sense of coherence; Trauma; War

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; CRIME; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; EUROPE; FEMALE; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 60849110612     PISSN: 00219762     EISSN: 10974679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jclp.20528     Document Type: Article

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