Disclosure attitudes and social acknowledgement as predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity in Chinese and German crime victims

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 547-556

  Mueller, Julia ^a   Orth, Ulrich ^b   Wang, Jianping ^c   Maercker, Andreas ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crime victims; Cross cultural study; Disclosure; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Social acknowledgement

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL ASPECT; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE; CHINA; CRIME VICTIMS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL VALUES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349427617     PISSN: 07067437     EISSN: 14970015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/070674370905400807     Document Type: Article

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