Influence of personal and environmental factors on mental health in a sample of Austrian survivors of World War II with regard to PTSD: Is it resilience?

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tran, Ulrich S ^a   Glück, Tobias M ^a   Lueger Schuster, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; NURSING HOME; OCCUPATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVOR; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 84873111424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-13-47     Document Type: Article

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