Women in cultural transition: Suicidal behavior in South African Indian women

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 82-93

  Wassenaar, Douglas R ^a   Van Der Veen, Marchiene B W ^b   Pillay, Anthony L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; GENDER; HUMAN; INDIAN; MARRIAGE; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOUTH AFRICA; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; WOMEN;

EID: 2642676892     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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