Low income, unemployment, and suicide mortality rates for middle-age persons in Japan

Psychological Reports

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 337-348

  Yamasaki, Akiko ^a   Sakai, Ryoji ^b   Shirakawa, Taro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 20744436870     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.96.2.337-348     Document Type: Article

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