Finding social benefits after a collective trauma: Perceiving societal changes and well-being following 9/11

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 81-90

  Poulin, Michael J ^a   Silver, Roxane Cohen ^b   Gil Rivas, Virginia ^c   Holman, E Alison ^b   McIntosh, Daniel N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LIFE SATISFACTION; LIFE STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOCIAL CARE; TERRORISM; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; SOCIAL CHANGE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249106468     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20391     Document Type: Article

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