Late-life Depression, Suicidal Ideation, and Attempted Suicide: The Role of Individual Differences in Maximizing, Regret, and Negative Decision Outcomes

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 363-371

  Bruine de Bruin, Wändi ^a,b   Dombrovski, Alexandre Y ^c   Parker, Andrew M ^d   Szanto, Katalin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

decision making; Decision Outcome Inventory (DOI); depression; elderly; maximizing; regret; suicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938635129     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: 10990771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdm.1882     Document Type: Article

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