The relationship between adverse childhood experience and obsessive-compulsive symptoms and beliefs: The role of anxiety, depression, and experiential avoidance

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1037-1046

  Briggs, Eric S ^a   Price, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adverse childhood experience; Anxiety; Experiential avoidance; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CRIME VICTIMS; CULTURE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349772969     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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