Are empathic abilities impaired in posttraumatic stress disorder?

Psychological Reports

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 832-844

  Nietlisbach, Gabriela ^a   Maercker, Andreas ^a   Rösler, Wulf ^b   Haker, Helene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; EMPATHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PERSONALITY TEST; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956222624     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.106.3.832-844     Document Type: Article

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