PTSD's latent structure in Malaysian tsunami victims: Assessing the newly proposed Dysphoric Arousal model

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 26-32

  Armour, Cherie ^a   Raudzah Ghazali, Siti ^b   Elklit, Ask ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Anxious arousal; Confirmatory factor analysis; Dysphoric arousal; Five factor model; Natural disaster; PTSD; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONCENTRATION LOSS; DYSMORPHIC AROUSAL MODEL; DYSPHORIA; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MALAYSIA; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THOUGHT DISORDER; TSUNAMI; UNPLEASANT DREAM; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TSUNAMIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875401768     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.09.012     Document Type: Article

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