Attempted Suicide and Restrictions in the Elegibility to Negotiate Personal Characteristics

This study tests the prediction that in situations that call for the negotiation of personal characteristics (i.e., potential degredation),suicidal individuals will offer fewer negotiation moves than nonsuicideal. Also examined are; the relationship between the depth of depression & the eligibility to negotiate personal characteristics, the paradoxical nature of suicide attempts, & the relationship of the present conceptualization to others presented in the literature. (40 ref.)