Year: 2001 Source: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, v.23, no.2, (June 2001), p.107-115 SIEC No: 20100514

Schizophrenia may impart to self-concept a quality of self-hatred that encourages suicidality in people with schizophrenia. If so, an index of self-hatred should be more correlated with suicidality among people with schizophrenia-spectrum symptoms than among people with fewer such symptoms. 2 studies evaluated this possibility. In Study 1 of 243 suicidal outpatients affiliated with the military, self-hate & suicidality were more correlated among people with schizotypal symptoms than among other patients. In Study 2 of 113 Veterans’ Affairs psychiatric inpatients, self-hate & suicidality were more correlated among people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia than among patients with a diagnosis of major depression. (22 refs.) JA