Personality Factors and Suicide Risk in a Representative Sample of the German General Population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Blüml, Victor ^a   Kapusta, Nestor D ^a   Doering, Stephan ^a   Brähler, Elmar ^b,c   Wagner, Birgit ^b,c   Kersting, Anette ^b,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC GROUP; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; GERMAN; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; OPENNESS; PERSONALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROTECTIVE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL BEHAVIORS QUESTIONNAIRE REVISED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885039877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076646     Document Type: Article

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