Do extenuating circumstances influence African American women's attitudes toward suicide?

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 44-51

  Marion, Michelle S ^a   Range, Lillian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CANCER; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; RELIGION; SUICIDE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUICIDE;

EID: 0037362396     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.33.1.44.22789     Document Type: Article

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