The structure of acute stress disorder among Chinese adults exposed to an earthquake: Is dysphoric arousal a unique construct of acute posttraumatic responses?

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 430-436

  Wang, Richu ^a,b   Wang, Li ^a   Zhang, Jianxin ^a   Liu, Zhengkui ^a   Wu, Kankan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Acute stress disorder; China; Confirmatory factor analysis; Earthquake; Factor structure

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AROUSAL; CHINA; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC, ACUTE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866177493     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2012.00965.x     Document Type: Article

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