TY - JOUR
T1 - Correlates of suicide and violence risk in an inpatient population
T2 - Coping styles and social support
AU - Kotler, Moshe
AU - Finkelstein, Graciela
AU - Molcho, Avi
AU - Botsis, Alexander J.
AU - Plutchik, Robert
AU - Brown, Serena Lynn
AU - van Praag, Herman M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. This study was partially supported by the American Suicide Foundation, Grant #9-526-8255W. e thank Israel Katz and Richard Nockowitz for assistance in interviewing the patients. We are also grateful for the cooperation and support of the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, a member of the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation.
PY - 1993/6
Y1 - 1993/6
N2 - Forty-six suicidal psychiatric inpatients were compared with 44 nonsuicidal psychiatric inpatients on measures of suicide risk, violence risk, impulsivity, feelings of anger, social support, and eight coping styles. The two groups were similar on demographic variables, but the suicidal patients were higher on the suicide risk scale, the violence risk scale, the impulsivity scale, and feelings of anger. Suicidal patients were significantly less likely to use the coping style of minimization to deal with life problems. A negative correlation was found between the social support measure and both suicide risk and violence risk. Three coping styles were found to correlate negatively with violence risk, but none with suicide risk. Coping styles were found to be a better predictor of violence risk than of suicide risk. It was also found that the more variables included in the predictor equation, the higher the correlation with the risk measures.
AB - Forty-six suicidal psychiatric inpatients were compared with 44 nonsuicidal psychiatric inpatients on measures of suicide risk, violence risk, impulsivity, feelings of anger, social support, and eight coping styles. The two groups were similar on demographic variables, but the suicidal patients were higher on the suicide risk scale, the violence risk scale, the impulsivity scale, and feelings of anger. Suicidal patients were significantly less likely to use the coping style of minimization to deal with life problems. A negative correlation was found between the social support measure and both suicide risk and violence risk. Three coping styles were found to correlate negatively with violence risk, but none with suicide risk. Coping styles were found to be a better predictor of violence risk than of suicide risk. It was also found that the more variables included in the predictor equation, the higher the correlation with the risk measures.
KW - Impulsivity
KW - aggression
KW - depression
KW - psychiatric inpatients
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0027156205
U2 - 10.1016/0165-1781(93)90085-U
DO - 10.1016/0165-1781(93)90085-U
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AN - SCOPUS:0027156205
SN - 0165-1781
VL - 47
SP - 281
EP - 290
JO - Psychiatry Research
JF - Psychiatry Research
IS - 3
ER -
