Traditional versus modern values, self-perceived interpersonal factors, and posttraumatic stress in Chinese and German crime victims

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 219-232

  Maercker, Andreas ^a   Mohiyeddini, Changiz ^b   Müller, Mario ^c   Xie, Wei ^d   Yang, Zhi Hui ^d   Wang, Jiangping ^d   Müller, Julia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRIME; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; CRIME; CRIME VICTIMS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL VALUES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 67649227099     PISSN: 14760835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/147608308X380769     Document Type: Article

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