MMPI inmate profiles: Suicide completers, suicide attempters, and non-suicidal controls

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 833-842

  Daigle, Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^b Institut Philippe Pinel de Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRISON; PRISONER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MMPI; PRISONERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 11144226826     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.618     Document Type: Article

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