The role of coping, resilience, and social support in mediating the relation between PTSD and social functioning in veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan

Psychiatry(New York)

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 135-149

  Tsai, Jack ^a,b   Harpaz Rotem, Ilan ^b   Pietrzak, Robert H ^b   Southwick, Steven M ^b  

^a Education   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IRAQ; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SATISFACTION; SCREENING; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VETERAN; VETERANS HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; AFGHANISTAN; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; IRAQ; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 84862504883     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.2012.75.2.135     Document Type: Article

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