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Dependency and suicidality in psychiatric inpatients
Author(s) -
Bornstein Robert F.,
O'Neill Richard M.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(200004)56:4<463::aid-jclp2>3.0.co;2-5
Subject(s) - psychology , projective test , dependency (uml) , psychiatry , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , systems engineering , psychoanalysis , engineering , economics , macroeconomics
Abstract One hundred fifty‐two psychiatric inpatients (91 women and 61 men) completed widely used objective (i.e., self‐report) and projective measures of interpersonal dependency; scores on these measures were compared to two indices of suicidality derived from patients' chart records (i.e., number of past suicide attempts and physician judgments of suicidality at admission). High objective dependency scores were associated with high suicidality scores in women and men, even when level of depression was controlled for statistically. Projective dependency scores were unrelated to both suicidality indices. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 56: 463–473, 2000.