Correlates, item-sequence invariance, and test-retest reliability of the beliefs in the inheritance of risk factors for suicide scale (BIRFSS)

Psychological Reports

Volumn 101, Issue 3 II, 2007, Pages 1107-1117

  Voracek, Martin ^a   Loibl, Lisa Mariella ^a   Egle, Johanna ^a   Schleicher, Stefanie ^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; ARTICLE; CONTROL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; STUDENT; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CULTURE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERNET; MALE; POLITICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENTS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 39649114597     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.101.4.1107-1117     Document Type: Article

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