Gender differences in the relationship between maladaptive behaviors and post-traumatic stress disorder. A study on 900 L'Aquila 2009 earthquake survivors

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Dell'Osso, Liliana ^a   Carmassi, Claudia ^a   Stratta, Paolo ^b   Massimetti, Gabriele ^a   Akiskal, Kareen K ^c   Akiskal, Hagop S ^c   Maremmani, Icro ^a   Rossi, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Gender; Maladaptive behaviors; Post traumatic stress symptoms; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84877699708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2012.00111     Document Type: Article

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