A systematic literature review of PTSD's latent structure in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV to DSM-5

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 44, Issue , 2016, Pages 60-74

  Armour, Cherie ^a   Mullerová, Jana ^a   Elhai, Jon D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; DSM; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARMY; CINAHL; DSM-5; DSM-IV; DYSPHORIA; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GENDER; HUMAN; MEDLINE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCINFO; REVIEW; SOLDIER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VETERAN; WEB OF SCIENCE; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84952673367     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: 18737811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2015.12.003     Document Type: Review

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