Suicide ideation and attempts among low-income African American adolescents

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 552-563

  Fitzpatrick, Kevin M ^a,c   Piko, Bettina F ^b   Miller, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 58149463795     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2008.38.5.552     Document Type: Article

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