Post- and peritraumatic stress in disaster survivors: An explorative study about the influence of individual and event characteristics across different types of disasters

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Grimm, Anna ^a   Hulse, Lynn ^b   Preiss, Marek ^c   Schmidt, Silke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Disaster; Emergency psychology; Hazard; Impact of event scale revised; Peritraumatic emotion; Posttraumatic stress; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889672995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20008066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v3i0.7382     Document Type: Article

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