Individual- and Structural-Level Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts among Transgender Adults

Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 164-171

  Perez Brumer, Amaya ^a   Hatzenbuehler, Mark L ^a   Oldenburg, Catherine E ^b   Bockting, Walter ^c,d  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

internalized transphobia; structural stigma; suicide attempts; transgender

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; FEMALE; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSGENDER; GENDER IDENTITY; HIGH SCHOOL; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INTERNALIZED TRANSPHOBIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSGENDER; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PUBLIC OPINION; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STIGMA; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNITED STATES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSGENDER;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL STIGMA; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSGENDER PERSONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941177722     PISSN: 08964289     EISSN: 19404026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08964289.2015.1028322     Document Type: Article

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