Suicide rate and national scores on the big five personality factors

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 609-610

  Voracek, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33746611192     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.102.2.609-610     Document Type: Article

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