Posttraumatic stress disorder and marital adjustment: The mediating role of forgiveness

Family Process

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 546-558

  Solomon, Zahava ^a   Dekel, Rachel ^b   Zerach, Gadi ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Forgiveness; Marital Adjustment; Posttraumatic Symptoms; POWs

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MARRIAGE; MENTAL STRESS; PERCEPTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; VETERAN; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MARRIAGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PRISONERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VETERANS; WAR;

EID: 70450228438     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2009.01301.x     Document Type: Article

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