Multimodal assessment of emotional reactivity in borderline personality pathology: The moderating role of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 639-648

  Dixon Gordon, Katherine L ^a   Gratz, Kim L ^a   Tull, Matthew T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BORDERLINE STATE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SELF REPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84880851005     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2012.12.019     Document Type: Article

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