Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "suicide"

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    • Thought suppression and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors 

      Najmi, Sadia; Wegner, Daniel; Nock, Matthew K. (Elsevier BV, 2007)
      This study proposes and tests a theoretical model suggesting that the propensity to suppress unwanted thoughts is associated with an increased presence and frequency of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITB). In the ...

    • Understanding Suicide Risk Within the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Framework: Insights, Challenges, and Future Research Considerations 

      Glenn, Catherine R.; Cha, Christine; Kleiman, Evan M.; Nock, Matthew K. (SAGE Publications, 2017)
      Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide. Prior research has focused primarily on sociodemographic and psychiatric risk factors with little improvement in the prediction or prevention of suicidal behavior over time. ...

    • Understanding the elevated suicide risk of female soldiers during deployments 

      Street, A. E.; Gilman, Stephen Edward; Rosellini, A; Stein, M. B.; Bromet, E. J.; Cox, K. L.; Colpe, L. J.; Fullerton, C. S.; Gruber, M; Heeringa, S. G.; Lewandowski-Romps, L.; Little, R. J. A.; Naifeh, J. A.; Nock, Matthew K.; Sampson, Nancy A.; Schoenbaum, M.; Ursano, R. J.; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Kessler, Ronald (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014)
      Background The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) has found that the proportional elevation in the US Army enlisted soldier suicide rate during deployment (compared with the ...

    • War and first onset of suicidality: the role of mental disorders 

      Karam, E. G.; Salamoun, M. M.; Mneimneh, Z. N.; Fayyad, J. A.; Karam, A. N.; Hajjar, R.; Dimassi, H.; Nock, Matthew K.; Kessler, Ronald (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012)
      Background Suicide rates increase following periods of war; however, the mechanism through which this occurs is not known. The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the associations of war exposure, mental disorders, ...

    • Why Do People Hurt Themselves? New Insights into the Nature and Functions of Self-Injury 

      Nock, Matthew K. (SAGE Publications, 2009)
      Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a prevalent but perplexing behavior problem in which people deliberately harm themselves without lethal intent. Research on the nature of NSSI reveals that it typically has its onset ...