Appropriateness of the multi-attitude suicide tendency scale for non-White individuals

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Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-84

  Gutierrez, Peter M ^a   Osman, Augustine ^b   Kopper, Beverly A ^b   Barrios, Francisco X ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

MAST; Psychometrics; Race; Young adults

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICS; STUDENT; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; STUDENTS; SUICIDE; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 2942553029     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191103261041     Document Type: Article

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