Psychosocial buffers of traumatic stress, depressive symptoms, and psychosocial difficulties in veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom: The role of resilience, unit support, and postdeployment social support

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 120, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 188-192

  Pietrzak, Robert H ^a,b   Johnson, Douglas C ^c   Goldstein, Marc B ^d   Malley, James C ^d   Rivers, Alison J ^a,b   Morgan, Charles A ^a,b   Southwick, Steven M ^a,b  

^a VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Resilience; Social support; Veterans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FREEDOM; HUMAN; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUPPORT GROUP; VETERAN;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 71649095872     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2009.04.015     Document Type: Article

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