Smart and suicidal? The social ecology of intelligence and suicide in Austria

Death Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 471-485

  Voracek, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIVORCE; HUMAN; INCOME; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; THEORY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

AUSTRIA; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY; SUICIDE;

EID: 33645763953     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180600614591     Document Type: Article

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