Posttraumatic symptoms following a campus shooting: The role of psychosocial resource loss

Violence and Victims

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 461-476

  Littleton, Heather ^a   Kumpula, Mandy ^b   Orcutt, Holly ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation of resources theory; Mass trauma; PTSD; School shooting

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MASS DISASTER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; VICTIM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051623940     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.26.4.461     Document Type: Article

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