Posttraumatic stress reactions as a disruption in anxiety-buffer functioning: Dissociation and responses to mortality salience as predictors of severity of posttraumatic symptoms

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 329-341

  Abdollahi, Abdolhossein ^a,b   Pyszczynski, Tom ^c   Maxfield, Molly ^c   Luszczynska, Aleksandra ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anxiety Buffer Disruption Theory; posttraumatic stress; Terror Management Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054730330     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021084     Document Type: Article

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