The stress and adversity inventory for adults (adult strain) in German: An overview and initial validation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2019, Pages

  Sturmbauer, Sarah C ^a   Shields, Grant S ^b   Hetzel, Eva Luca ^a   Rohleder, Nicolas ^a   Slavich, George M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGREEABLENESS; ANXIETY; CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY; CHRONIC STRESS; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY ADVERSITY; EXPOSURE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; GERMAN (LANGUAGE); HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; NEUROSIS; OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE; PARAMETERS; PERCEIVED STRESS; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PROGRAM ACCEPTABILITY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STRESS; STRESS ASSESSMENT; THE STRESS AND ADVERSITY INVENTORY; USABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; GERMANY; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 85065641726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216419     Document Type: Review

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