Personality and suicide risk: The impact of economic crisis in Japan

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 559-573

  Tanji, F ^a   Kakizaki, M ^a   Sugawara, Y ^a   Watanabe, I ^a   Nakaya, N ^b   Minami, Y ^a   Fukao, A ^c   Tsuji, I ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cohort study; economic crisis; Japan; personality; suicide risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ECONOMIC RECESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISTORY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE; TRENDS;

ADULT; ECONOMIC RECESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84927690940     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291714001688     Document Type: Article

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