Pathological Narcissism and Acute Anxiety Symptoms After Trauma: A Study of Israeli Civilians Exposed to War?

Psychiatry (New York)

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 381-397

  Besser, Avi ^a   Zeigler Hill, Virgil ^b   Pincus, Aaron L ^c   Neria, Yuval ^d  

^a SAPIR ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NARCISSISM; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIOLENCE; WAR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NARCISSISM; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 84902300533     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.2013.76.4.381     Document Type: Article

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