Soldiers who kill themselves: The contribution of dispositional and situational factors

Archives of Suicide Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-43

  Bodner, Ehud ^a   Ben Artzi, Elisheva ^a   Kaplan, Zeev ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dispositions; Motivation; Soldiers; Suicides

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MOTIVATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUICIDE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APTITUDE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOTIVATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE;

EID: 33646076237     PISSN: 13811118     EISSN: 15436136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13811110500318299     Document Type: Article

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