Is maternal ptsd associated with greater exposure of very young children to violent media?

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 658-662

  Schechter, Daniel S ^a,b   Gross, Anna ^b   Willheim, Erica ^b   McCaw, Jaime ^b   Turner, J Blake ^b   Myers, Michael M ^b   Zeanah, Charles H ^c   Gleason, Mary Margaret ^c  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DECISION MAKING; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PERSONALITY TEST; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RECREATION; STATISTICS; TELEVISION; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AROUSAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; PARENTING; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POVERTY; PSYCHOMETRICS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TELEVISION; VIDEO GAMES; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75749157402     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20472     Document Type: Conference Paper

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