Testing Shneidman's model of suicidality in incarcerated offenders and in undergraduates

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 912-917

  Pereira, Effie J ^a   Kroner, Daryl G ^b   Holden, Ronald R ^a   Flamenbaum, Ricardo ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Hopelessness; Offenders; Psychache; Shneidman; Suicidality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956871089     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.07.029     Document Type: Article

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