The role of couples' interacting world assumptions and relationship adjustment in women's postdisaster PTSD symptoms

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 276-281

  Monson, Candice M ^a   Gradus, Jaimie L ^a   La Bash, Heidi A J ^b   Griffin, Michael G ^c   Resick, Patricia A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FLOODING; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FLOODS; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 70449519354     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20432     Document Type: Article

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