Problem-Solving Skills in Suicidal Psychiatric Patients

We examined a diathesis-stress-hopelessness model of suicidal behavior, the diathesis in question being a cognitive deficit in problem solving. We further expanded an analysis of the problem-solving skills and deficits of suicidal persons. This we accomplished by comparing a sample of 50 hospitalize...

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Published in:Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 1987-02, Vol.55 (1), p.49-54
Main Authors: Schotte, David E, Clum, George A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Biological and medical sciences
Depression
Female
Human
Humans
Ideation
Life Change Events
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Mood disorders
Pessimism
Problem Solving
Psychiatric Patients
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social research
Social Skills
Stress
Suicide
Suicide - psychology
Suicide, Attempted - psychology
Suicides & suicide attempts
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Summary:We examined a diathesis-stress-hopelessness model of suicidal behavior, the diathesis in question being a cognitive deficit in problem solving. We further expanded an analysis of the problem-solving skills and deficits of suicidal persons. This we accomplished by comparing a sample of 50 hospitalized patients on suicidal precautions with a control sample of 50 nonsuicidal hospitalized patients. The suicidal group differed from the control group on a number of dependent measures in accordance with the hypothesis that suicidal individuals are deficient in impersonal and interpersonal problem solving, experience more stress, and are more hopeless. Interpersonal problem-solving deficits were confined to tasks requiring subjects to generate alternative solutions to problems, as well as to anticipate negative consequences for proposed solutions.
ISSN:0022-006X
1939-2117
DOI:10.1037/0022-006X.55.1.49