All PTSD Symptoms Are Highly Associated With General Distress: Ramifications for the Dysphoria Symptom Cluster

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 126-135

  Marshall, Grant N ^a   Schell, Terry L ^a   Miles, Jeremy N V ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; depression; posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DYSPHORIA; FEMALE; FIRE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SURVIVOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 77249137296     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018477     Document Type: Article

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