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Journal of Anxiety Disorders 25 (2011) 80–87 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Anxiety Disorders Assessing the factor structure of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in war-exposed youths with and without Criterion A2 endorsement Cherie Armour a,∗ b c a ´ d , Christopher M. Layne , James A. Naifeh , Mark Shevlin , Elvira Durakovic-Belko , Nermin Djapo d , Robert S. Pynoos b , Jon D. Elhai e a School of Psychology, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, University of Ulster at Magee Campus, L’Derry BT48 7JL, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom b UCLA/Duke University, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA c Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA d University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina e Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Posttraumatic stress disorder’s (PTSD) tripartite factor structure proposed by the DSM-IV is rarely empir- Received 11 March 2010 ically supported. Other four-factor models (King et al., 1998; Simms et al., 2002) have proven to better Received in revised form 5 August 2010 account for PTSD’s latent structure; however, results regarding model superiority are conflicting. The cur- Acc