Attachment patterns in medically serious suicide attempts: The mediating role of self-disclosure and loneliness

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 511-522

  Levi Belz, Yossi ^a   Gvion, Yari ^b   Horesh, Netta ^b   Apter, Alan ^c  

^a RUPPIN ACADEMIC CENTER   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF DISCLOSURE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; SELF DISCLOSURE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 84885575728     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 1943278X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12035     Document Type: Article

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