Habits of Nervous Tension and Suicide
- 1 June 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
- Vol. 21 (2) , 91-105
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1943-278x.1991.tb00458.x
Abstract
In a prospective study of 1,046 male medical students, those who later committed suicide showed a heightened sensitivity in stressful situations as assessed by the Habits of Nervous Tension Questionnaire (HNT). Survival analyses specified 2 of the 25 HNT items as the strongest suicide predictors: Irritability (relative risk 5.5; 95% confidence interval 1.76–17.17) and Urinary Frequency (3.3; 1.07–10.32). No other risk factors for suicide emerged from family background measures or individual medical school measures. It appears that types of sensitivity reflect psychological characteristics that are long‐term precursors of suicide.Keywords
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