Beliefs in the inheritance of risk factors for suicide scale: Development, reliability, stability, and convergent and discriminant validity

Psychological Reports

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-116

  Voracek, Martin ^a   Loibl, Lisa Mariella ^a   Sonneck, Gernot ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Medical University of Vienna and Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SUICIDE;

ADULT; CULTURE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE;

EID: 34948901969     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.101.1.107-116     Document Type: Article

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