Development and Validation of the Refugee Trauma Experience Inventory

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-117

  Hussain, Dilwar ^a   Bhushan, Braj ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

convergent validity; internal consistency; principal components analysis; refugee trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 68049101450     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016120     Document Type: Article

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