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Multi-Level Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation Among at-Risk Adolescent Females: The Role of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Responses to Stress
(Springer Nature, 2014)
Adopting a multi-level approach, this study examined risk factors for adolescent suicidal ideation, with specific attention to (a) hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis stress responses and (b) the interplay between ...
Prevalence, subtypes, and correlates of DSM-IV conduct disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2006)
Background
Prior research indicates that conduct disorder (CD) is associated with a range of comorbid mental disorders. However, the actual prevalence, subtypes, and patterns of comorbidity of DSM-IV defined CD in the ...
Early Onset Alcohol Use and Self-Harm: A Discordant Twin Analysis
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
Background
Self-harm has considerable societal and economic costs and has been extensively studied in relation to alcohol involvement. Whereas early onset alcohol use (EAU) has been causally linked to maladaptive clinical ...
Parallel psychometric and cognitive modeling analyses of the Penn Face Memory Test in the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers
(Informa UK Limited, 2013)
Objective
The psychometric properties of the Penn Face Memory Test (PFMT; Gur et al., 1997) were investigated in a large sample (4,236 participants) of U.S. Army Soldiers undergoing computerized neurocognitive testing. ...
Predicting suicide attempts in depressed adolescents: Clarifying the role of disinhibition and childhood sexual abuse
(Elsevier BV, 2015)
Background
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents, and depressed youth are six times more likely to make suicide attempts as compared to non-depressed adolescents. The present study examined the ...
Smoking and Suicidal Behaviors in the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2007)
Controversy exists about the role of mental disorders in the consistently documented association between smoking and suicidal behavior. This controversy is addressed here with data from the nationally representative National ...
A risk index for 12-month suicide attempts in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R)
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2006)
BACKGROUND
Clinical judgments about the likelihood of suicide attempt would be aided by an index of risk factors that could be quickly assessed in diverse settings. We sought to develop such a risk index for 12-month ...
Improving the Short-Term Prediction of Suicidal Behavior
(Elsevier BV, 2014)
Aspirational Goal 3 of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention’s Research Prioritization Task Force is to predict who is at risk for attempting suicide in the near future. Despite decades of research devoted ...
Occupational differences in US Army suicide rates
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2015)
Background
Civilian suicide rates vary by occupation in ways related to occupational stress exposure. Comparable military research finds suicide rates elevated in combat arms occupations. However, no research has evaluated ...
The biopsychosocial model of stress in adolescence: self-awareness of performance versus stress reactivity
(Informa UK Limited, 2014)
Extensive research among adults supports the biopsychosocial (BPS) model of challenge and threat, which describes relationships among stress appraisals, physiological stress reactivity, and performance; however, no previous ...