Journal ArticlePsychol Addict Behav · November 10, 2025
OBJECTIVE: Alcohol use is associated with suicidal thoughts, urges, and behavior. However, prior research has been mostly cross-sectional, limiting understanding of how these variables influence one another across short time periods. The present study used ...
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Journal ArticleAlcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken) · October 2025
BACKGROUND: Binge drinking peaks during emerging adulthood and is associated with negative developmental outcomes. Within-person changes in cannabis use have been shown to coincide with binge drinking; however, whether within-person changes in binge drinki ...
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Journal ArticleJ Adolesc Health · August 2025
PURPOSE: Trends in alcohol and cannabis use among adolescents in the United States have generally declined in prevalence since the 1990s. However, it is unknown if these trends are observed among adolescents with suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs), a p ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Lifestyle Med · May 14, 2025
This study from a national sample of Gulf War Veterans (N = 1098) examined the association between physical activity level and (a) past-year suicidal ideation and (b) risk for suicidal behavior as defined by a score of > 7 on the Suicidal Behaviors Questio ...
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Journal ArticleRes Child Adolesc Psychopathol · May 2025
Suicide prevention and treatment guidelines for pediatric patients often mirror adult strategies. Distinguishing itself from other pediatric specialties, when a child is psychiatrically hospitalized, the child is typically separated from their family, desp ...
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Journal ArticleSuicide Life Threat Behav · April 2025
INTRODUCTION: Individuals who are depressed, have suicide attempts, and a substance use disorder (SUD) may have different patterns of suicidal thoughts and behaviors and respond differently to cues associated with suicide and death. METHOD: Implicit affect ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Ment Health Addict · February 7, 2025
OBJECTIVE: Alcohol and cannabis use are each associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) in military veterans, but less is known with regard to concurrent use. The present study compared U.S. veterans (N = 1098; 78% m ...
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Journal ArticleArch Suicide Res · 2024
OBJECTIVE: Pain confers risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Experiential avoidance (EA), which is relevant to both pain and suicide risk, has not been studied as a potential mechanism for this relationship. The present study tested the hypothesis tha ...
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Journal ArticleBehav Sleep Med · 2024
OBJECTIVES: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) among veterans is frequently underdiagnosed and undertreated. The present study sought to: 1) characterize the prevalence and rate of treatment of OSA among VA users and non-users and 2) examine the associations be ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Psychol · March 2023
OBJECTIVE: Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) frequently functions to regulate shame-based emotions and cognitions in the context of interpersonal stress. The present study sought to examine how sleep quality (SQ) may influence this process in a laboratory set ...
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Journal ArticleDeath Stud · 2023
Cannabis use has been indicated as a risk factor for suicide in veterans. This study of Gulf War veterans tested the relationship between self-report past year cannabis use and (a) past year suicidal ideation and (b) risk for suicidal behavior. Data were f ...
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Journal ArticlePsychiatry Res · August 2022
Prior research suggests a possible association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) in veterans. However, this association has not yet been replicated. The present study sought to replicate and ...
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Journal ArticleJ Affect Disord · July 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD) are each common among Unites States (U.S.) military veterans and frequently co-occur (i.e., PTSD+AUD). Although comorbid PTSD+AUD is generally associated with worse outcomes re ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · February 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have described suicidal ideation among survivors of childhood cancer, but small numbers of events limit the understanding of suicide risk. The objectives of this study were to assess whether childhood cancer survivors are at in ...
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Journal ArticleDeath Stud · 2022
Insomnia is a risk factor for suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The present study examined the role of pre-sleep arousal in this association. Seventy-eight adults (Mage = 24.28, 56% had recent history of suicidal thoughts and behaviors) attended two lab vis ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pers Assess · 2022
Karen Horney's interpersonal theory of adjustment defined three different neurotic trends involving characteristic social behavior and motives: compliant (moving toward people), aggressive (moving against people), and detached (moving away from people). Th ...
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Journal ArticleCurrent Research in Behavioral Sciences · January 1, 2022
Substance abuse treatment constitutes a period of increased risk for suicide. It is unclear if social support during treatment influences suicide risk during treatment, or how this is characterized across different treatment modalities. The present study i ...
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Journal ArticleJMIR Ment Health · December 15, 2020
BACKGROUND: College students' mental health may be disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic because of the abrupt shift off campus and subsequent loss of a social network and potential long-term impact on job prospects. OBJECTIVE: We sought to a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Affect Disord · March 15, 2020
BACKGROUND: Sleep is a reliable correlate of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs), yet few studies have directly examined negative affect in the context of this association. The present study combined daily experience methods with a laboratory paradigm t ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pers Disord · December 2019
The present study applied the interpersonal perspective in testing the narcissistic admiration and rivalry concept (NARC) and examining the construct validity of the corresponding Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ). Two undergraduate ...
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Journal Article · November 1, 2018
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a treatable and perhaps preventable condition, particularly if evidence-based interventions, such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) are implemented earlier in the course of the BPD trajectory. The biosocial t ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pers Disord · August 2017
Sleep disturbance is common in borderline personality disorder (BPD), yet the reasons for this association are not clear. The present study sought to extend prior studies by testing emotion dysregulation as a mechanism underlying this association. We admin ...
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Journal ArticlePers Individ Dif · July 15, 2017
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) confers risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The present study used the interpersonal perspective to investigate potential mechanisms underlying this association. In two undergraduate samples (N = 293; N = 188) in St ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Opin Psychol · April 2017
PTSD is a well-established risk factor for the full range of self-directed violence (SDV). It is also one of the few psychological conditions that distinguish those who think about suicide from those who attempt suicide. Despite considerable evidence suppo ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pers · December 2014
A variety of aspects of personality and emotional adjustment predict the development and course of coronary heart disease (CHD), as do indications of marital quality (e.g., satisfaction, conflict, strain, disruption). Importantly, the personality traits an ...
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