Anxiety Sensitivity Prospectively Predicts Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Following a Campus Shooting

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 367-376

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

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety sensitivity; PTSD; Risk factors; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANXIETY; ANXIETY ASSESSMENT; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY INDEX; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; COGNITION; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXPOSURE QUESTIONNAIRE; POSTTRAUMATIC DIAGNOSTIC SCALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER CHECKLIST; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; FIREARM; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STUDENTS; SURVIVORS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961669733     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: 18781888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2016.02.006     Document Type: Article

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