Includes bibliographical references and index.

The relationship between personality and post traumatic stress disorder / Alexander C. McFarlane -- Personality, trauma exposure, and posttraumatic stress disorder severity: moving beyond the monovariable predictor model / Dean Lauterbach -- Environmental vulnerabilities and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among children with different personality styles / John A. Fairbank, et al. -- Temperamental and environmental determinants of the intensity of PTSD symptoms in children two years after a flood / Magdalena Kaczmarek and Bogdan Zawadzki -- Individual differences as moderators of posttraumatic stress symptoms experienced after flood: the role of temperament and coping styles / Jan Strelau and Bogdan Zawadzki -- The role of gender and age in coping with terror: Israelis in the shadow of El-Aqsa intifada / Zahava Solomon, Marc Gelkopf and Avraham Bleich -- Coping with war captivity: the contribution of personality resources / Rachel Dekel, et al. -- Sense of mastery as a moderator of longer-term effects of disaster impact on psychological distress / Krzysztof Kaniasty -- Coping may help: neuroticism, exposure to threat, and coping effectiveness / Tatiana Klonowicz and Roman Cieślak -- General self-efficacy and quality of life in cancer survivors / Sonja Boehmer and Aleksandra Luszczynska -- Genetic, environmental, and temperamental correlates of post-traumatic stress disorder: family studies / Anna Siwy-Hudowska.