Relations of psychological characteristics to suicide behaviour: Results from a large sample of male prisoners

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 250-255

  Sarchiapone, M ^a   Jovanovic N ^b   Roy, A ^c   Podlesek, A ^d   Carli, V ^a   Amore, M ^e   Mancini, M ^f   Marusic A ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^e Department of Neuroscience   (Italy)

^f MAPPsi (Medici associati per la psichiatria e la psicoterapia)   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Childhood trauma; Emotional lability; Prisoners; Psychological characteristics; Sensation seeking behaviour; Substance abuse; Suicide attempt; Suicide ideation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349217689     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Allen M.H., Chessick C.A., Miklowitz D.J., Goldberg J.F., Wisniewski S.R., Miyahara S., et al. Contributors to suicidal ideation among bipolar patients with and without a history of suicide attempts. Suicide and Life Threatening Behaviour 35 (2005) 671-680
2. Angst J., and Clayton P. Premorbid personality of depressive, bipolar, and schizophrenic patients with special reference to suicidal issues. Comprehensive Psychiatry 27 (1986) 511-531
3. Barratt E. Impulsivity: Integrating cognitive, behavioural, biological and environmental data. In: McCowan W., and Shure M. (Eds). The impulsive client: Theory, research and treatment (1993), APA, Washington, DC 39-119
4. Bernstein D.P., Ahluvalia T., Pogge D., and Handelsman L. Validity of the childhood trauma questionnaire in an adolescent psychiatric population. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 36 (1997) 340-348
5. Brezo J., Paris J., and Turecki G. Personality traits as correlates of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and suicide completions: A systematic review. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 113 (2006) 180-206
6. Brodsky B.S., Oquendo M., Ellis S.P., Haas G.L., Malone K.M., and Mann J.J. The relationship of childhood abuse to impulsivity and suicidal behaviour in adults with major depression. American Journal of Psychiatry 158 (2001) 1871-1877
7. Brown G.L., Goodwin F.K., Ballenger J.C., Goyer P.F., and Major L.F. Aggression in humans correlates with cerebrospinal fluid amine metabolites. Psychiatry Research 1 (1979) 131-139
8. Buss A.H., and Durkee A. An inventory for assessing different kinds of hostility. Journal of Consultation Psychology 21 (1957) 343-349
9. Castrogiovanni P. Per una valutazione dell'aggressività nell'uomo: Contributo alla validazione di un questionario per la tipizzazione del comportamento aggressivo' [Evaluation of human aggression: Contribution to the evaluation with a questionnaire which assesses aggressive behaviour]. Rivista di Psichiatria 17 (1982) 276
10. Christensen M.V., and Kessing L.V. Do personality traits predict first onset in depressive and bipolar disorder?. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry 60 (2006) 79-88
11. Connor K.M., and Davidson J.R. Development of a new resilience scale: The Connor-Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC). Depression and Anxiety 18 (2003) 76-82
12. Conti, L. (1999). Repertorio delle scale di valutazione in psichiatria. Progressi in psichiatria [Repertory of the evaluation scales in psychiatry. Advances in psychiatry]. Firenze: Società Editrice Europea.
13. Cuomo C., Sarchiapone M., Giannantonio M.D., Mancini M., and Roy A. Aggression, impulsivity, personality traits, and childhood trauma of prisoners with substance abuse and addiction. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 34 (2008) 339-345
14. DuRand C.J., Burtka G.J., Federman E.J., Haycox J.A., and Smith J.W. A quarter century of suicide in a major urban jail: Implications for community psychiatry. American Journal of Psychiatry 152 (1995) 1077-1080
15. Eysenck H., and Eysenck S. Manual of the Eysenck personality questionnaire (1975), Hodder and Stoughton, London
16. Fazel S., and Danesh J. Serious mental disorder in 23,000 prisoners: A systematic review of 62 surveys. Lancet 359 (2002) 545-550
17. Fruehwald S., and Frottier P. Suicide in prison. Lancet 366 (2005) 1242-1244
18. Fruehwald S., Frottier P., Matschnig T., and Eher R. The relevance of suicidal behaviour in jail and prison suicides. European Psychiatry 18 (2003) 161-165
19. Hamilton M. A rating scale for depression. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 23 (1960) 56-62
20. Jenkins R., Bhugra D., Meltzer H., Singleton N., Bebbington P., Brugha T., et al. Psychiatric and social aspects of suicidal behaviour in prisons. Psychological Medicine 35 (2005) 257-269
21. Malone K.M., Haas G.L., Sweeney J.A., and Mann J.J. Major depression and the risk of attempted suicide. Journal of Affective Disorders 34 (1995) 173-185
22. Marcus P., and Alcabes P. Characteristics of suicides by inmates in an urban jail. Hospital and Community Psychiatry 44 (1993) 256-261
23. Preti A., and Cascio M.T. Prison suicides and self-harming behaviours in Italy, 1990-2002. Medicine, Science and the Law 46 (2006) 127-134
24. Romanov K., Hatakka M., Keskinen E., Laaksonen H., Kaprio J., Rose R.J., et al. Self-reported hostility and suicidal acts, accidents, and accidental deaths: A prospective study of 21, 443 adults aged 25-59. Psychosomatic Medicine 56 (1994) 328-336
25. Rossi A., Alberio R., Porta A., Sandri M., Tansella M., and Amaddeo F. The reliability of the mini-international neuropsychiatric interview - Italian version. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology 24 (2004) 561-563
26. Roy A. Childhood trauma and attempted suicide in alcoholics. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders 189 (2001) 120-121
27. Roy A. Characteristics of drug addicts who attempt suicide. Psychiatry Research 121 (2003) 99-103
28. Roy A. Reported childhood trauma and suicide attempts in schizophrenic patients. Suicide and Life Threatening Behaviour 35 (2005) 690-693
29. Sarchiapone M., Carli V., Cuomo C., and Roy A. Childhood trauma and suicide attempts in patients with unipolar depression. Depression and Anxiety 24 (2007) 268-272
30. Trémeau F., Darreye A., Staner L., Corrêa H., Weibel H., Khidichian F., et al. Suicidality in opioid-dependent subjects. American Journal of Addictions 17 (2008) 187-194