Is ideology a risk factor for PTSD symptom severity among Israeli political evacuees?

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 483-490

  Oren, Lior ^a   Possick, Chaya ^a  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JEW; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; MOTIVATION; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; RELIGION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TERRORISM; VIOLENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COERCION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; JEWS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; MOTIVATION; POLITICS; REFUGEES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TERRORISM; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78249281019     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20540     Document Type: Article

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