A controlled study of suicide in middle-aged and older people: Personality traits, age, and psychiatric disorders

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 130-138

  Draper, Brian ^a,b   Kõlves, Kairi ^c   De Leo, Diego ^c   Snowdon, John ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SUICIDE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SUICIDE;

EID: 84898793135     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 1943278X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12053     Document Type: Article

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