Comparing alternative factor models of PTSD symptoms across earthquake victims and violent riot witnesses in China: Evidence for a five-factor model proposed by Elhai et al. (2011)

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 771-776

  Wang, Li ^a   Zhang, Jianxin ^a   Shi, Zhanbiao ^a   Zhou, Mingjie ^a   Li, Zhongquan ^b   Zhang, Kan ^a   Liu, Zhengkui ^a   Elhai, Jon D ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Confirmatory factor analysis; Earthquake; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Violent riot

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHECKLIST; CHINA; CIVIL DISORDER; CONCENTRATION LOSS; CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; DYSPHORIA; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPEREKPLEXIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGHTMARE; PARESTHESIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SLEEP AROUSAL DISORDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VICTIM; WITNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; RIOTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE;

EID: 79957882472     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: 18737897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

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