Suicides

Suicides

Ricky Medina
Intro. to Biology
Report # 3

Twenty-six Israeli suicidal patients, twenty-four non-suicidal patients

and twenty-four control aptients completed tests on different suicidal

tendencies. Suicidal adolescents showed more negative responses that did

either the non-suicidal adolescents or the control patients. Furthermore

compared to the other two groups, the suicidal adolescents showed less

complex self-attributes and a higher tendency to have a low self-esteem.

Results were discussed and it was found that suicidal adolescents were

unevenly processing information or stimuli which was causing confusion

which led to their suicidal tendencies.

Orbach, Isreal, Mario Mikulineer, Daniel Stein, and Orit Cohen, Self-representation of Suicidal Adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 1996. Vol. No.3 435-439.Ricky Medina
Intro. to Biology
Report # 4

Researchers used multiple measures of irrationability and compared

the reactions of never-depressed controls (ND) with people who had

recovered from major depression. The ND studies revealed that they didn't

exceed in errationality and negative mood in specific situations. The people

who were recovered from depression did show that when there were other

variables their attitude did change faster than those who had never suffered

from depression. They concluded that recovered depressed people weren't

able to handle being under different situations when they had to control ther...

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