The relationship between post traumatic stress disorder and post traumatic growth: Gender differences in PTG and PTSD subgroups

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1903-1910

  Jin, Yuchang ^a,b   Xu, Jiuping ^b   Liu, Dongyue ^a  

^a SICHUAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Earthquake; PCL C; Post traumatic growth; Post traumatic stress disorder; PTGI

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84926651896     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: 14339285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-014-0865-5     Document Type: Article

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