The effects of extraversion, social support on the posttraumatic stress disorder and posttraumatic growth of adolescent survivors of the Wenchuan earthquake

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Jia, Xuji ^a   Ying, Liuhua ^b   Zhou, Xiao ^a   Wu, Xinchun ^a   Lin, Chongde ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CHILD PTSD SYMPTOM SCALE; CHINA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARTHQUAKE; EXTRAVERSION; EXTRAVERSION SUBSCALE; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH; POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH INVENTORY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVOR; CHILD; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; EARTHQUAKES; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84926304431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121480     Document Type: Article

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