Life events, coping, and posttraumatic stress symptoms among chinese adolescents exposed to 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Zheng, Yuhong ^a   Fan, Fang ^a   Liu, Xianchen ^a,b   Mo, Lei ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CHINA; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHINA; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84856299516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029404     Document Type: Article

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