Resource Tag: TIME PERSPECTIVE

This study reports the results of an investigation of suicide & parasuicide among students aged 15-24. Contrary to previous findings, lower frequencies of both forms of self-destructive behavior were found in the student population, compared to non-student, same age peers. During the period 1979-1982, controlled case studies were conducted, based on the suicides & attempts. […]

The health of males aged 20-64 in the medical, legal, teaching & clerical professions is evaluated in 6 countries based on official statistics & findings over the past century using standardized mortality ratio as an index. Consistent differences in mortality are exhibited-low among teachers & clergy, high among lawyers & physicians. Noted causes are coronary […]

Discusses a study in which perceptions of time in 3 groups of subjects were tested. Results indicated that, for suicidal persons, psychological time ticks in inverse proportion to chronological time. (LH)

Discusses the progress that has been made in the study of suicidal thinking including the identification of cognitive variables that are directly related to suicidal behaviour. Structures of suicidal thinking, rigidity & constriction, & time perception are explored & conclusions about self-destructive cognitions are offered. Suggestions for further research are included. (64 refs.) (LH)

This study was designed to investigate the personal impact of incarceration on the lives of prison inmates. 29 male inmates of an Illinois prison volunteered to participate; a structured interview was used to determine areas of inmate concern. The 5 categories of subjective concern were psychological adaptation, existential concerns, time, anxiety about other people, and […]

The applicability of the V-Statistic and other tests and procedures which detect cluster patterns among data which are categorized into time and space units is demonstrated with homicide and suicide data. The three-part analysis that includes time clustering, nonrandom concordant patterns, and time space interaction is presented.(NBB)

Dr. George Pollock states that “The transitoriness of life, times’s inexorable march to death, has been a preoccupation of man from the beginning of time. “p.441” The psychological impact of, time on the unconscious is examined from a psychoanalytical perspective. 14 ref. (NBB)

To the question “Why suicide?” a tentative framework is proposed, taking the form of a syndrome of 5 components: commitment, rigidity, failure, shame, & isolation. The syndrome is psychological as well as sociological, deals with the response of the suicide victim to crisis, & suggest mechanisms lacking in other theoretical frameworks. Quantitative & qualitative data […]

The clinical assessment of the high risk suicidal person continues to be a major challenge for diagnosticians. Based on the parameter of time as a major differentiating variable, a semiprojective psychological technique–the Time Questionnaire(TQ)–has been developed. The present study reports findings elaborating & extending a pilot study using the TQ. The TQ consistently & significantly […]

The purpose of this study was to assess self-reports of inpatients after a suicide attempt with respect to their suicidal intent, as well as their tendencies for socially desirable responses. A longitudinal study of psychiatric patients measured responses at 3 time points after an attempt. Subjects were 21 males & 31 females. A lethality questionnaire […]

Tests the hypothesis that adolescent depression is mediated by the cognitive organization of object representations & that suicidal depressed adolescents reveal lower levels of object representation & a greater cognitive impairment than nonsuicidal depressed adolescents. Data was obtained from a review of the records & psychological test protocols of 39 inpatient depressed adolescents, half of […]

The authors state that if childhood responses to bereavement become pathological in adulthood, it is essential that these early responses are studied & strategies developed for prevention. In an attempt to determine where reactions become problematic, 18 children (aged 4-17) were interviewed. 3 typical case histories are examined and common findings are discussed. The authors […]

An individual’s perception of time is highly personalized & subjective. Assuming that time orientation may be related to views about living & dying, its measures may differentiate etween suicidal & nonsuicidal people. Six measures of time perception were administered to 2 groups. One contained 15 psychiatric Ss who had attempted suicide; the other had 14 […]

This study utilized a correlational design to assess the relationships between instrumental & expressive traits, future time perspective & suicidal intent. Predictions investigated were: that instrumental traits would constrict the suicidal person’s view of the future & expressive traits would enhance it; that the degree of suicide intent would be positively correlated with expressive traits; […]

The Time Opinion Survey was administered to 15 male high lethality suicide attempters & 2 control groups. Results show that suicidal patients had a significantly lower score on speed of Time Perception & Current Life Conditions than controls. They were less future oriented than normals, but significantly more than geriatrics & experienced greater time pressures […]

Subjects (15 male hospitalized suicidal, 15 male terminal, 15 geriatrically ill, & normal patients) perception of time passage was evaluated by (a) behavioral estimations of elapsed time & (b) a survey of their opinions concerning the passage of time, including an evaluation of various consequences of the rate of time passage. Suicidal subjects, closely followed […]

Hypothesized that suicidal individuals perceive time as moving slower than do geriatric & normal patients. Behavioral type estimates of 2 short & 2 long time intervals were elicited from 15 serious suicide attempters, 15 geriatric patients & 15 normal hospitalized subjects. Suicidal subjects overestimated the length of the time intervals to a greater degree than […]

An assessment of the capacity of affective future time perspectives to identify adolescent suicide attempters and assess their lethality. The investigation of the relationship between affective future time perspective and problem solving ability was a secondary focus of the study. (KB)

Study of the theory and research of time perspective as an indication of suicidal risk and its relationship to the correlates of depression, hopelessness and helplessness. Also includes a comparison of the time perpectives of 15 suicide attempers and 15 drug abusers admitted to a Chicago general hospital. (KB)

An investigation of the hypotheses that the time perspective of high risk suicidals is transient, related to their risk status and not a permanent trait of their personality. (KB)

Study contrasting groups of suicide attempters (high lethality method), suicide attempters (low lethality method), schizophrenics with no suicidal ideation, depressives with no suicidal ideation and a group with a non-psychotic organic brain syndrome using a verbal estimate task, a production task, a reproduction task, a comparison task and the Time Questionnaire. (KB)

A semi-projective questionnaire (the Time Questionnaire) was developed & significantly differentiated clinical groups (in & outpatients) where suicidal intent was prominent from non-clinical groups based on the degree & detail of elaboration of future time perspective. The instrument also discriminated the more suicidal in-patient from the outpatient group. The instrument assessed suicidal tendencies independently from […]