Trauma severity and control beliefs as predictors of posttraumatic growth among adolescent survivors of the wenchuan earthquake

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 192-198

  Ying, Liu Hua ^a,b   Lin, Chong De ^a   Wu, Xin Chun ^a   Chen, Chuansheng ^c   Greenberger, Ellen ^c   An, Yuan Yuan ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Posttraumatic growth; Primary and secondary control beliefs; The Wenchuan earthquake; Trauma severity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899003330     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031964     Document Type: Article

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