Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms as a function of the interactive effect of subjective age and subjective nearness to death

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 102, Issue , 2016, Pages 245-251

  Hoffman, Yaakov S G ^a   Shrira, Amit ^a   Cohen Fridel, Sara ^a   Grossman, Ephraim S ^a   Bodner, Ehud ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Missile attacks; PTSD symptoms; Subjective age; Subjective nearness to death

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978646260     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.07.017     Document Type: Article

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