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Relationships between Measures of Direct and Indirect Hostility and Self-Destructive Behaviour by Hospitalized Schizophrenics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Jerome A. Yesavage
Jerome A. Yesavage*
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit, Veterans Administration Medical Center, 3801 Miranda Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94304 and, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Summary

To test the hypothesis that suicidal and self-destructive behaviour correlate with subjective and objective measures of hostility and violence, these behaviours in hospitalized schizophrenics were correlated to self-report (Buss-Durkee) and observer-rated (Lion Scale) measures. Self-destructive acts were significantly correlated with six of the seven of the Buss-Durkee self-report hostility subscales. The observed measures of hostility and violence correlated with seclusion and with restraint as a self-protective measure. Neither the Lion nor the Buss-Durkee measures correlated with depression measures. Thus, our data indicate that self-destructive acts in hospitalized schizophrenics may be better predicted by feelings of anger and hostility than by depression, a finding with relevance for clinicians who treat schizophrenic patients.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 143 , Issue 2 , August 1983 , pp. 173 - 176
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Copyright © 1983 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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