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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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Cross, Tracy L.; Cassady, Jerrell C.; Miller, Kimberly A. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2006
This study describes psychological characteristics of gifted adolescents. It also identifies the relationships between psychological personality types and suicide ideation. Participants in the study were 152 juniors enrolled in a public residential high school for academically gifted students. The Suicide Ideation Questionnaire, a 30-item…
Descriptors: Extraversion Introversion, Psychological Characteristics, Psychology, Personality