Public attitudes toward suicide demographic and ideological correlates

Public Opinion Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 92-101

  Sawyer, Darwin ^a   Sobal, Jeffery ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 0011380055     PISSN: 0033362X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/269017     Document Type: Article

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