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Beautrais, Annette L.; Joyce, Peter R.; Mulder, Roger T. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1999
Study shows that individuals making suicide attempts have elevated odds of hopelessness, neuroticism, introversion, low self-esteem, impulsiveness, and external locus of control. When allowances were made for intercorrelations between these measures, hopelessness, neuroticism, and external locus of control remained significant risk factors for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Extraversion Introversion, Locus of Control, Neurosis
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Wiebe, Deborah J.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1994
Adolescents who were more internally focused were more able to discern which symptoms actually covaried with blood glucose (BG) fluctuations; those with higher trait anxiety tended to misattribute non-diabetes-related symptoms to BG levels. Interactions suggested those who both attend to internal physical sensations and experience-heightened…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Diabetes, Extraversion Introversion