Assessing posttraumatic stress disorder's latent structure in elderly bereaved european trauma survivors: Evidence for a five-factor dysphoric and anxious arousal model

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 201, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 901-906

  Armour, Cherie ^a   O'Connor, Maja ^b   Elklit, Ask ^a   Elhai, Jon D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

anxious arousal; bereavement; confirmatory factor analysis; dysphoric arousal; Posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BEREAVEMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPHORIA; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; BEREAVEMENT; DENMARK; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84885196873     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182a5befb     Document Type: Article

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