Locus of control and psychopathology in relation to levels of trauma and loss: Self-reports of peloponnesian wildfire survivors

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 189-196

  Mellon, Robert C ^a   Papanikolau, Vasiliki ^b   Prodromitis, Gerasimos ^a  

^a PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; FEMALE; FIRE; GREECE; HUMAN; LOCUS OF CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SURVIVOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FIRES; GREECE; GRIEF; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; SURVIVORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249156072     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20411     Document Type: Article

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