Citation

Bornstein RF, O'Neill RM. J. Clin. Psychol. (Hoboken) 2000; 56(4): 463-473.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(200004)56:4<463::aid-jclp2>3.0.co;2-5

PMID

10775041

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.

Language: en

Keywords

Humans; Adult; Female; Male; Predictive Value of Tests; Suicide/*psychology; Mental Disorders/*psychology; *Dependency, Psychological; Inpatients/statistics & numerical data; MMPI; Rorschach Test