title: Determinants of choice of method for suicide and the person/situation debate in psychology.
abstract: Researchers have not identified personological predictors of choice of method for suicide, whereas an availability hypothesis has received support. Thus, the situational position may be useful as a framework for efforts to prevent suicide.
authors.affiliation: Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, NJ 08012, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D006801:Humans; D010551:Personality; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000092864:Suicide Prevention