A longitudinal investigation of the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms and posttraumatic growth in a cohort of Israeli Jews and Palestinians during ongoing violence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Hall, Brian J ^a,b   Saltzman, Leia Y ^c   Canetti, Daphna ^d   Hobfoll, Stevan E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^e RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONALITY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAELI; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PALESTINIAN; POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONCEPT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; TERRORISM; VIOLENCE; ARAB; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ISRAEL; JEW; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARABS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929359631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124782     Document Type: Article

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