"Reasons For Living" - Translation, psychometric evaluation and relationships to suicidal behaviour in a Swedish random sample

Nordic Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 277-285

  Dobrov, Eugen ^a   Thorell, Lars H ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Convergent validity; Factor analysis; Positive beliefs and expectations; Reasons For Living; Suicidal behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FAMILY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIABILITY; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SWEDEN; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SWEDEN; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 4544260795     PISSN: 08039488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08039480410005783     Document Type: Article

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