Personality and the latent structure of PTSD comorbidity

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 599-607

  Miller, Mark W ^a,b   Wolf, Erika J ^a,b   Reardon, Annemarie ^b   Greene, Ashley ^b   Ofrat, Shani ^b   McInerney, Scott ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Externalizing; Internalizing; Personality; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BORDERLINE STATE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTIONALITY; EXTERNALIZING; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNALIZING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PERSONALITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VETERANS;

EID: 84860637004     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: 18737897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2012.02.016     Document Type: Article

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