Evidence for a curvilinear relationship between posttraumatic growth and posttrauma depression and PTSD in assault survivors

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-52

  Kleim, Birgit ^a   Ehlers, Anke ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNICITY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SHAME; SURVIVOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VIOLENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 67049169379     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20378     Document Type: Article

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