Moving Beyond Self-Report: Implicit Associations about Death/Life Prospectively Predict Suicidal Behavior among Veterans

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 67-77

  Barnes, Sean M ^a,b   Bahraini, Nazanin H ^a,b   Forster, Jeri E ^a,b   Stearns Yoder, Kelly A ^a   Hostetter, Trisha A ^a   Smith, Geoffrey ^a   Nagamoto, Herbert T ^a,b   Nock, Matthew K ^c  

^a Education and Clinical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; VETERAN;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; VALUE OF LIFE; VETERANS;

EID: 84978136402     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 1943278X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12265     Document Type: Article

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