Acculturation and suicide attitudes: A study of perceptions about suicide among a sample of Ghanaian immigrants in the United States

Psychological Reports

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 295-304

  Eshun, Sussie ^a  

^a EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIGRATION; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; ATTITUDE; DATA COLLECTION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALE; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749854002     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.99.1.295-304     Document Type: Article

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