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R L Luscomb

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PubMed1991

On the stress/parasuicide or parasuicide/stress relationship.

The question of whether high stress leads to attempting suicide (parasuicide) or suicide attempters are more likely to report high stress was examined in a one-year follow-up study of 98 persons, 47 of whom had attempted suicide. Cross-lagged panel correlations between stress and parasuicide provided both concurrent and predictive validity that stress as measured by life changes leads to parasuicide. A high relationship between stress at baseline and stress at follow-up provided support for the notion that some individuals experience chronic stress and that such individuals may be the ones at risk for future suicide attempts.

Follow-Up Studies↗
PubMed1982

Relaxation training and cognitive redirection strategies in the treatment of acute pain.

Relaxation training, relaxation instructions, and redirection of attention techniques were compared to a no-treatment control in the treatment of acute ischemic pain. Relaxation instructions were ineffective in reducing state anxiety, verbally reported pain or distress or pain measured during presentation of the stimulus by cross-modality matching. Relaxation training was effective in reducing distress during presentation of the stimulus and verbally reported pain. The attention-redirection technique reduced pain as measured by cross-modality matching. The interaction hypothesis was supported, re. the two measures of distress during presentation of the painful stimulus. As externality increased, the effectiveness of relaxation training increased. However, there was no consistent decrease in distress for subjects high on externality in the relaxation instruction group.

Attention↗
PubMed1980

Mediating factors in the relationship between life stress and suicide attempting.

The present study examined male suicide attempters and a control population of psychiatric patients in an effort to determine the importance of life stress and locus of control as factors in suicide attempting. The parasuicide group was found to be younger, less psychotic, and more depressed than the psychiatric group. Age was found to mediate the relationship between stress and suicide attempts; among older subjects, stress was greater in the attempt group than in the control group, but no difference in stress levels was found for younger subjects. With respect to locus of control, the results indicated that suicide attempters did not differ from psychiatric patients on degree of externality, although a relationship between stress and parasuicide was found for those individuals identified as congruent externals.

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