Looking for resilience: Understanding the longitudinal trajectories of responses to stress

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2190-2198

  Norris, Fran H ^a   Tracy, Melissa ^b   Galea, Sandro ^b  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster; Mexico; Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Resilience; Terrorism; USA

Indexed keywords

NATURAL DISASTER; PSYCHOLOGY; TERRORISM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FLOODING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LIFE STRESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICO; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649253020     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.03.043     Document Type: Article

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