Mental pain as a mediator of suicidal tendency: A path analysis

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 944-951

  Nahaliel, Smadar ^a   Sommerfeld, Eliane ^b,c   Orbach, Israel ^a   Weller, Aron ^a   Apter, Alan ^d,e   Zalsman, Gil ^c,d,f  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c GEHA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^f Division of Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology Psychiatry Department Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PAIN; PAIN; PATH ANALYSIS; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; ADOLESCENT; CONTROL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HOSPITALIZATION; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898800970     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2013.12.014     Document Type: Article

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