@article{ref1,
title="Using a battery of tests to predict suicide in a long-term hospital: a quantitative analysis",
journal="Journal of clinical psychology (Hoboken)",
year="1981",
author="Smith, Kersha",
volume="37",
number="3",
pages="555-563",
abstract="Examined the Wechsler-Bellevue, Rorschach, TAT and Word Association Tests of 40 Patients for quantitative indications of suicide potential. Ten of these patients had completed suicide, 10 &quot;serious&quot; attempts, 10 &quot;mild&quot; attempts and 10 had never made a suicide attempt. In addition to a study of the quantification of major aspects of the tests, various published hypotheses also were examined. No quantitative aspect of the data differentiated all four groups. When the &quot;completed&quot; and &quot;serious&quot; attempters were compared to the &quot;mild&quot; and &quot;no&quot; attempters, the more lethal patients were found to give more movement responses and more total responses. Those who completed suicide also had a larger difference than others between their Verbal and Performance IQs. Of the published hypotheses, only the Roth & Blatt and Sapolsky hypotheses received significant support.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0021-9762",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}