Styles of Problem Solving in Suicidal Individuals
作者:
Israel Orbach,
Hanna Bar‐Joseph,
Nirit Dror,
期刊:
Suicide and Life‐Threatening Behavior
(WILEY Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 20,
issue 1
页码: 56-64
ISSN:0363-0234
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1990.tb00653.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACT:This study compared qualitative aspects of problem solving among suicide attempters, suicide ideators, and nonsuicidal patients. The subjects completed a suicidal intent scale and a problem‐solving task involving three dilemmas. Problem solving was analyzed along eight qualitative categories: versatility of the various solutions, reliance on self versus others, activity versus passivity, confrontation versus avoidance, relevance of the solution to the problem, positive versus negative affect, reference to the future, and extremity of the solution. The statistical analysis yielded differences among the three groups. In general, the solutions of suicidal patients showed less versatility, more avoidance, less relevance, more negative affect, and less reference to the future than the solutions of the nonsuicidal patients. The suicide attempters and nonsuicidal patients offered more active solutions than did the suicide ideators. Our findings emphasize the importance of general coping styles, as well as energetic/motivational aspects and affective aspects of the problem‐solving process. Some applications to therapy are discus
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