Browsing by Subject "suicide"
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The relationship between non-suicidal self-injury and suicidality
(2016-09-21)The overall purpose of this study was to explain the overlap and distinctiveness of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicidality from a diathesis-stress perspective. The first part of this study evaluated the third ... -
The Role of Unmet Needs in Self-Harming Behaviours
(2015-07-21)Suicide and self-mutilation are widespread societal issues, making them an important area of research. The interpersonal theory of suicide (ITS) and Shneidman’s theory of psychache have each garnered substantial support ... -
Testing Shneidman's Theory of Suicide: Psychache as a Prospective Predictor of Suicidality and Comparison with Hopelessness
(2009-11-30)Shneidman (1993) has theorized that psychache (i.e., intolerable psychological pain) is the key cause of suicide, and accounts for the effect of all other psychological factors. Two studies are presented that test Shneidman’s ... -
"Too Heavy is the Load": Representations of Women and Suicide in 19th-Century British Literature
As British alienists and sociologists in nineteenth-century Britain sought to understand suicide as a disease of the mind, coroners, jurors and lay people became increasingly sympathetic to those who ended their own lives. ... -
Understanding the Relationship between Depression, Hopelessness, Psychache and Suicide Risk
(2007-12-18)Two studies were undertaken to examine the relationship between suicidality and three key psychological predictors of suicide risk, namely, depression, hopelessness, and psychache. Study 1 determined the degree to which ...