Citation

Lester D, McSwain S. Psychol. Rep. 2010; 106(3): 811-812.

Affiliation

Psychology Program, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Jimmie Leeds Road, Pomona, NJ 08240-0195, USA. lesterd@stockton.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

20712170

Abstract

An analysis of trends over time in the poems of Sara Teasdale as the time of her suicide approached identified a decrease in positive emotions and fewer references to the self and to others. These trends are different from those previously identified from studies of letters and diaries written by suicides.

Language: en