Do suicides' characteristics influence survivors' emotions?

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-125

  Schneider, Barbara ^a   Grebner, Kristin ^a   Schnabel, Axel ^a   Georgi, Klaus ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMOTION; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRIEF; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; SURVIVOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRIEF; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 79953815255     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1943-278X.2011.00024.x     Document Type: Article

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