Personality subtypes of suicidal adults

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 197, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 687-694

  Ortigo, Kile M ^a   Westen, Drew ^a   Bradley, Bekh ^b,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Personality; Subtypes; Suicide; Typology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; BORDERLINE STATE; CHILD ABUSE; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICS; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; Q-SORT; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 70349319538     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181b3b13f     Document Type: Article

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