Do PTSD symptoms and trauma-related cognitions about the self constitute a vicious cycle? Evidence for both cognitive vulnerability and scarring models

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 79-84

  Shahar, Golan ^a,b   Noyman, Gal ^a   Schnidel Allon, Inbal ^c   Gilboa Schechtman, Eva ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cognitive vulnerability; Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Post traumatic cognitions; Scarring; Self; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SYMPTOM; THINKING;

ADULT; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872615711     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.07.053     Document Type: Article

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