Can people benefit from acute stress? Social support, psychological improvement, and resilience after the Virginia tech campus shootings

Clinical Psychological Science

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 401-417

  Mancini, Anthony D ^a   Littleton, Heather L ^b   Grills, Amie E ^c  

^a PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Improvement; Latent growth mixture models; Resilience; Social processes; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978886184     PISSN: 21677026     EISSN: 21677034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2167702615601001     Document Type: Article

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