PTSD symptoms and suicide ideation: Testing the conditional indirect effects of thwarted interpersonal needs and using substances to cope

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 77, Issue , 2015, Pages 167-172

  Poindexter, Erin K ^a   Mitchell, Sean M ^a   Jahn, Danielle R ^d   Smith, Phillip N ^b   Hirsch, Jameson K ^c   Cukrowicz, Kelly C ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^c EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Interpersonal theory of suicide; PTSD; Substances

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921329310     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.12.043     Document Type: Article

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