Studying suicide with psychological autopsy: Social and cultural feasibilities of the methodology in China

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 370-379

  Zhang, Jie ^a,e   Wieczorek, William F ^a   Jiang, Chao ^b   Zhou, Li ^b   Jia, Shuhua ^b   Sun, Yueji ^b   Jin, Shenghua ^c   Conwell, Yeates ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^e BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUICIDE;

ADULT; AGED; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL VALUES; SUICIDE;

EID: 0036901204     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.32.4.370.22342     Document Type: Article

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