Interpersonal reactions to suicide attempt: The role of respondent causal attributions

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 641-647

  Paukert, Amber L ^a   Pettit, Jeremy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 38349115632     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2007.37.6.641     Document Type: Article

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