So you think you're bulletproof: Development and validation of the Invincibility Belief Index (IBI)

Military Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 499-508

  Killgore, William D S ^a,b   Kelley, Amanda ^c   Balkin, Thomas J ^b  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b U S ARMY AEROMEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MILITARY MEDICINE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; COMBAT DISORDERS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MILITARY PSYCHIATRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK-TAKING; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954651078     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-09-00240     Document Type: Article

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