Intimate relationships among returning soldiers: The mediating and moderating roles of negative emotionality, PTSD symptoms, and alcohol problems

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 564-572

  Meis, Laura A ^a   Erbes, Christopher R ^a   Polusny, Melissa A ^a   Compton, Jill S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOLDIER; WAR;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEGATIVISM; NEGOTIATING; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958542912     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20560     Document Type: Article

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