Asian Americans' Family Cohesion and Suicide Ideation: Moderating and Mediating Effects

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 309-318

  Joel Wong, Y ^a   Uhm, Soo Yun ^b   Li, Peiwei ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Asian Americans; Enculturation; Family cohesion; Language proficiency; Suicide ideation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; RISK; SUICIDAL IDEATION;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE;

EID: 84865155015     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: 19390025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2012.01170.x     Document Type: Article

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