The structure of post-traumatic stress symptoms in survivors of war: Confirmatory factor analyses of the Impact of Event Scale-Revised

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 606-611

  Morina, Nexhmedin ^a   Böhme, Hendryk F ^b   Ajdukovic, Dean ^c   Bogic, Marija ^d   Franciskovic, Tanja ^e   Galeazzi, Gian M ^f   Kucukalic, Abdulah ^g   Lecic Tosevski, Dusica ^h   Popovski, Mihajlo ⁱ   Schützwohl, Matthias ^j   Stangier, Ulrich ^k   Priebe, Stefan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

ⁱ SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

^j DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^k GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Impact of Event Scale Revised; PTSD; War related trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARESTHESIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REFUGEE; SLEEP DISORDER; SURVIVOR; SYMPTOM; WAR; WESTERN EUROPE; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADULT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; WAR;

EID: 77953121675     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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