Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ383600
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Family Survivors of Suicide and Accidental Death: Consequences for Widows.
McNiel, Dale E.; And Others
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, v18 n2 p137-48 Sum 1988
Examined the impact of completed suicide on the surviving family, comparing widows (N=13) whose husbands had died through suicide to widows (N=13) whose husbands had died in accidents. Found suicide survivors showed no more family dysfunction, life stress, or psychiatric symptomatology than accident survivors. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Accidents, Death, Family Problems, Mental Disorders, Spouses, Stress Variables, Suicide, Well Being, Widowed
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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