Using stressful films to analyze risk factors for PTSD in analogue experimental studies - which film works best?

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 549-569

  Weidmann, Anke ^a   Conradi, Ania ^b   Gröger, Kathrin ^a   Fehm, Lydia ^a   Fydrich, Thomas ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intrusive memories; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Risk factors; Stress; Stressful film paradigm; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAPE;

ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; RAPE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70449586742     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800802541986     Document Type: Article

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