Exploration of a factor mixture-based taxonic-dimensional model of anxiety sensitivity and transdiagnostic psychopathology vulnerability among trauma-exposed adults

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-78

  Zvielli, Ariel ^a   Bernstein, Amit ^a   Berenz, Erin C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety sensitivity; Transdiagnostic risk; Traumatic stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PANIC DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84858716050     PISSN: 16506073     EISSN: 16512316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16506073.2011.632436     Document Type: Article

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