The beliefs in the inheritance of risk factors for suicide scale (BIRFSS): Further results on demographic correlates, dimensionality, reliability, and validity

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 279-296

  Voracek, Martin ^a   Egle, Johanna ^a   Schleicher, Stefanie ^a   Loibl, Lisa Mariella ^a   Sonneck, Gernot ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSION; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR; POLITICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 35648936392     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/OM.55.4.c     Document Type: Article

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