Year: 1994 Source: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, v.182, no.1, (January 1994), p.3-8 SIEC No: 19940172

74 male alcoholics were given questionnaires measuring suicide risk, violence risk, defenses, & disordered personality functioning. Results show that suicide & violence risk were significantly positively correlated. 3 sets of predictor/mediator variables were identified: those predicting violence risk alone; those predicting suicide risk alone; & those predicting combined aggressive risk. Connections obtained between these variables & outcome variables are explained in existent clinical theory.