Social support and level of survivors' psychological stress after the Wenchuan earthquake

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1625-1632

  Xu, Jiuping ^a   Wang, Peng ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Psychological stress; Social support; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870484667     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2012.40.10.1625     Document Type: Article

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