Immigrant suicide rates as a function of ethnophaulisms: Hate speech predicts death

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 343-348

  Mullen, Brian ^a   Smyth, Joshua M ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnophaulisms; Hate speech; Immigrants; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEATH; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; HATE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIETY; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2442696457     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000126197.59447.b3     Document Type: Article

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