Relations Between Trauma-Based Subgroups and Posttrauma Health Outcomes: A Latent Class Analysis.
Objective: In trauma research, it is common for researchers to characterize participants as either "trauma exposed" or "not trauma exposed" regardless of nuanced differences of the potentially traumatic event (PTE). To our knowledge, no study has simultaneously examined differences across both PTEs...
| Publicado en: | Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice & Policy Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 186 - 196 |
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American Psychological Association
Jan2025
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