Relationships between soldiers' PTSD symptoms and spousal communication during deployment

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 352-355

  Carter, Sarah ^a   Loew, Benjamin ^a,b   Allen, Elizabeth ^a,b   Stanley, Scott ^b   Rhoades, Galena ^b   Markman, Howard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF REPORT; SOLDIER; SPOUSE; UNITED STATES; WAR;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; KENTUCKY; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPOUSES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054694939     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20649     Document Type: Note

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