The relationship between gender and PTSD symptoms: Anxiety sensitivity as a mechanism

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 90, Issue , 2016, Pages 210-213

  Norr, Aaron M ^a   Albanese, Brian J ^a   Boffa, Joseph W ^a   Short, Nicole A ^a   Schmidt, Norman B ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety sensitivity; Gender; Posttraumatic stress; PTSD; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946761598     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.11.014     Document Type: Article

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