The role of rumination in posttraumatic stress disorder and posttraumatic growth among adolescents after the wenchuan earthquake

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wu, Xinchun ^a   Zhou, Xiao ^a   Wu, Yufei ^b   An, Yuanyuan ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

adolescent; deliberate rumination; intrusive rumination; posttraumatic growth; posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

EID: 85118806818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01335     Document Type: Article

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