From the outside looking in: Sense of belonging, depression, and suicide risk

Psychiatry (New York)

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 29-41

  Fisher, Lauren B ^a   Overholser, James C ^b   Ridley, Josephine ^c   Braden, Abby ^d   Rosoff, Cari ^e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BECK HOPELESSNESS SCALE; BECK SCALE FOR SUICIDE IDEATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HOPELESSNESS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALE OF PERCEIVED SOCIAL SUPPORT; POST HOC ANALYSIS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSE OF BELONGING INSTRUMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK; SUICIDAL IDEATION; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84965163933     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00332747.2015.1015867     Document Type: Article

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