Presenting Problems of Parasuicides Versus Suicide Ideators and Nonsuicidal Psychiatric Patients

• Published in: Journal of consulting and clinical psychology Vol. 54; no. 6; pp. 880 - 881
• Main Authors: Linehan, Marsha M, Chiles, John A, Egan, Kelly J, Devine, Roberta H, Laffaw, Julie A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Psychological Association 01-12-1986
• Subjects: Adult; Attempted Suicide; Biological and medical sciences; Depression - complications; Female; Human; Humans; Interpersonal Interaction; Interpersonal Relations; Life Change Events; Male; Medical sciences; Psychiatric epidemiology; Psychiatric Patients; Psychology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry; Social research; Suicide; Suicide, Attempted - psychology; Suicides & suicide attempts; Human; Mood disorder; Suicide; Epidemiology; Interpersonal relation; Risk factor
• ISSN: 0022-006X; 1939-2117
• DOI: 10.1037/0022-006X.54.6.880

Individuals admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit for an immediately preceding parasuicide, with current suicidal ideation, or for nonsuicidal psychiatric reasons, were compared with each other on the types of problems they reported as being most significant in their current lives. Parasuicidal patients reported interpersonal problems with significantly greater frequency than did both suicide ideators and nonsuicidal psychiatric patients. Results could not be attributed to between-groups differences on sex, age, depression, or recent life stress.