Suicidality and Personality in American and Kuwaiti Students

David Lester and Ahmed Abdel-Khalek
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David Lester: Center for the Study of Suicide, 5 Stonegate Court (RR 41), Blackwood, NJ 08012, U.S.A.
Ahmed Abdel-Khalek: Alexandria University, Egypt & Kuwait University, Kuwait

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1998, vol. 44, issue 4, 280-283

Abstract: In samples of American and Kuwaiti college students, current and prior suicidal preoccupation were associated with measures of psychological disturbance, with depression being the strongest predictor of suicidality in both samples. Although the Kuwaiti students were more depressed than the American students, they reported less prior suicidal preoccupation.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1177/002076409804400404

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