The benefits of indirect exposure to trauma: The relationships among vicarious posttraumatic growth, social support, and resilience in ambulance personnel in China

Psychiatry Investigation

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 452-459

  Kang, Xiaofei ^a   Fang, Yueyan ^a   Li, Sihan ^a   Liu, Yadong ^b   Zhao, Di ^a   Feng, Xiujuan ^a   Wang, Yaqi ^a   Li, Ping ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG PROVINCIAL CHEST HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Ambulance personnel; Resilience; Social support; Structural Equation Modeling; Vicarious posttraumatic growth

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CONNOR-DAVIDSON RESILIENCE SCALE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH INVENTORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL SUPPORT RATING SCALE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; VICARIOUS POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH;

EID: 85047476441     PISSN: 17383684     EISSN: 19763026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30773/pi.2017.11.08.1     Document Type: Article

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