Lillian M Range
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 230022 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lillian M Range |
| NOMBRES | Lillian M |
| APELLIDO | Range |
| FIRMA | RANGE L M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southern Mississippi |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Attitudes Toward Marriage and Subjective Well-Being Among Indian Young Adults
The institution of marriage is central to Indian society, and yet society is changing rapidly as the Indian economy grows and modernizes, especially in urban India. Marriage rates are falling in western countries and other eastern countries, but they do not seem to be in India as a whole. Attitudes to marriage and subjective well-being seem to be linked in other countries with intention to marry and we wanted to see if a similar link existed amon…
Events surrounding stillbirth and their effect on symptoms of depression among mothers
Women who experience stillbirth often report anxiety, depression, and loss of self-esteem afterward, but aspects of the pregnancy, such as length of pregnancy, seeing the baby after delivery, and seeing the baby as long as they wished might be associated with symptoms of depression. So, we sent an online, detailed questionnaire about their stillbirth experience and their current depression to two Facebook child loss support groups. A total of 66 …
Grief and Healing Trajectories of Drug-Death-Bereaved Parents
We explored parents' views of the trajectories of their adult children's eventual deaths from drugs with in-depth qualitative interviews from 11 bereaved parents. Parents reported great emotional distress and high financial burdens as their children went through death spirals of increasing drug involvements. These deaths often entailed anxiety-inducing interactions with police or medical personnel, subsequent difficulties with sharing death cause…
Families Bereaved by Alcohol or Drugs
Does knowing that a suicide was “rational” influence grief
Counseling professionals and graduate students (N = 117) recruited online read a randomly assigned one-paragraph vignette about either a nonrational or rational suicide involving an imaginary loved one. Then, they completed the Grief Experiences Questionnaire (GEQ) about how they would feel. The nonrational suicide group expected significantly more search for explanation than the rational suicide group but was not significantly different on the o…
How Organ Donors are Different from Non-donors
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Who Benefits from Pennebaker’s Expressive Writing Paradigm? Research Recommendations from Three Gender Theories
Responding to Suicidal Calls
To see if trait anxiety and suicidality interfered with the ability to respond to suicidal crisis calls, 279 undergraduates completed measures of trait anxiety and suicidality in the past week, and the revised Suicide Intervention Response Inventory (SIRI-2). Unexpectedly, trait anxiety (but not suicidality) correlated with better SIRI-2 scores. In addition, students scored significantly more like the experts on the SIRI-2 if they were European-A…
Joys and Tribulations of Faith-Based Youth Tobacco Use Prevention
Faith-based health promotion initiatives are resurging in popularity among health promoters and providers, but few programs are systematic, large-scale, and funded at the state level. One exception is an initiative by the Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi (PHM), a nonprofit organization funded by tobacco settlement monies. PHM funded churches and other faith-based organizations to implement a grassroots youth tobacco use prevention program to…
Effects of Sentencing Options and Strict/Lenient Instructions on Convicting Suicide Attempters
Sentence and strictness of instructions influence juries' willingness to convict. To see whether this result holds for suicide attempters, 240 undergraduates read jury instructions for a suicide attempt that varied sentence (jail term, fine, community service, or mandatory counseling) and instructions, voted guilty / not guilty, and rated their certainty and effectiveness. With sentences of 25 hours mandatory counseling, or strict instructions, m…
No-Suicide Contracts
No-suicide contracts, in their various forms, can deepen commitment to a positive action, strengthen the therapeutic alliance, facilitate communication, lower anxiety, aid assessment, and document precautions. Conversely, they can anger or inhibit the client, introduce coercion into therapy, be used disingenuously, and induce false security in the clinician. Research on no-suicide contracts (frequency surveys, assessments of behavior after contra…
No-Suicide Agreements
Researchers have studied what therapists and college students think about no-suicide agreements, but high school students might also be called on to use these kinds of agreements. To examine their perspectives, 96 Caucasian and African American high school students were randomly assigned to read a vignette about a 15-year old suicidal adolescent, Jamie, who met with a psychologist. Jamie's therapist used 1 of 2 treatments: therapy alone or therap…
No-Suicide Contracts Among College Students
Is Training in Psychology Associated With Increased Responsiveness to Suicidality
Worthwhile Mistakes
Suicide
Suicide is a major mental health problem in the United States and an issue that significantly impacts the mental health treatment community. Although the suicide rate remains relatively stable, the discipline of counseling psychology has broadened in scope and work settings have diversified. Thus, counseling psychology trainees are increasingly exposed to suicidal clients. Despite this reality, research suggests that comprehensive, systematic tra…
Contemporary Issues in Suicidology
Behavioral and Verbal Responses of Unabused Externalizing Children to Anatomically Detailed Doll Interviews
Suicidality, hopelessness, and attitudes toward life and death in clinical and nonclinical adolescents
To see if hopelessness and four attitudes (attraction to life and death and repulsion by life and death) account for the development of suicidality in children, 15 adolescent psychiatric inpatients and 84 middle and high school students, average age 15.2 years, took a four-item version of the Suicidal Behaviors Questionnaire, the Hopelessness Scale for Children (HSC), and the Multi-Attitude Suicide Tendency Scale for Adolescents (MAST-A). Profile…
The escape theory of suicide and perfectionism in college students
A preliminary model of the escape theory of suicide was tested in 168 college students (52 males, 116 females), who completed self-report measures of self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially prescribed perfectionism, negative life stress, depression, hopelessness, anxiety, reasons for living, and suicidal behaviors. A path analysis provided only partial validation for the model and accounted for 26% of the variance in suicidal behaviors. None …
Family environment, attitudes toward life and death, depression, and suicidality in elementary-school children
This study examines whether perception of family environment, attitudes toward life and death, and depression predict suicidality in elementary-school children. Seventy-eight participants ages 8 to 13 recruited through an elementary school and a university were assessed for attitudes toward life and death, depression, suicidality, and family environment. A regression equation indicated that depression and attraction to life were the only variable…
Family environment, depression, attitudes toward life and death, and suicidality in young adults
To examine the correlates of suicidality, 282 young adults at a medium-sized southern university completed measures of depression, family environment, attitudes toward life and death, and suicidality. Family cohesion accounted for 14.6% of the variance in suicidality, while repulsion by death and attraction to life accounted for an additional 1.3% and 1.4% of the variance in suicidality respectively. Suicidality was higher for young adults who re…
Bereavement from Suicide as Compared to other Forms of Bereavement
Bereavement from suicide results in a difficult and complex adjustment for the surviving friends and family members. As compared to other forms of bereavement, suicide survivors are likely to experience more intense grief reactions and may suffer from social rejection and alienation. The present study was designed to compare bereavement from suicide with other forms of bereavement on standardized measures of grief, stress, and social supports. Co…
Reacting to Aids-related suicide
To determine whether type of illness and length of time since diagnosis influence reactions to suicide, we had 296 undergraduates read a vignette about Pat, who had been diagnosed as having AIDS or terminal cancer for 1 week, 1 month, 6 months, or 1 year, and then complete the Prejudicial Evaluation Scale and the Social Interaction Scale. Subjects then read that Pat committed suicide and completed the Youth Suicide Scale and the Suicide Semantic …
Suicide
Suicide is a major mental health problem in the United States and an issue that significantly impacts the mental health treatment community. Although the suicide rate remains relatively stable, the discipline of counseling psychology has broadened in scope and work settings have diversified. Thus, counseling psychology trainees are increasingly exposed to suicidal clients. Despite this reality, research suggests that comprehensive, systematic tra…
Psychometric properties of the suicidal behaviors questionnaire
In order to assess the reliability and validity of Cole's (1988) four-item version of the Suicidal Behaviors Questionnaire (SBQ), 57 clinical outpatients completed it and the Reasons for Living Inventory (RFL), and 86 undergraduates completed it and the Scale for Suicide Ideation (SSI). Two weeks later, 30 undergraduates completed the SBQ again. Cronbach alphas were moderate (clinical sample = .75; nonclinical sample = .80). Test--retest correlat…
Who Benefits from Pennebaker’s Expressive Writing Paradigm? Research Recommendations from Three Gender Theories
College and University Student Suicide
Suicide among college and university students is unquestionably an important issue on the nation's college campuses. This is true not only because of the frequency of suicidal attempts/completions, but also because of the severe trauma often precipitated by suicide. Although there are numerous writings discussing the general phenomenon of suicide -and in particular child and adolescent suicide -less has been written concerning suicidal trends spe…
Suicidality, hopelessness, and attitudes toward life and death in clinical and nonclinical adolescents
To see if hopelessness and four attitudes (attraction to life and death and repulsion by life and death) account for the development of suicidality in children, 15 adolescent psychiatric inpatients and 84 middle and high school students, average age 15.2 years, took a four-item version of the Suicidal Behaviors Questionnaire, the Hopelessness Scale for Children (HSC), and the Multi-Attitude Suicide Tendency Scale for Adolescents (MAST-A). Profile…
Attitudes toward life and death and suicidality in young adults
Attitudes toward life and death, alone or in combination with life events, may be important in discriminating between those at serious risk for suicide and those who are not. Of 140 young adults in a college setting, 139 completed the Multi-Attitude Suicide Tendency Scale for Adolescents (MAST-A), the Life and Death Attitudes Scale (Fairy Tales), the Suicidal Behaviors Questionnaire (SBQ), the Death Anxiety Scale, and the Life Experiences Survey …
Reliability and validity of the suicide intervention response inventory
The Suicide Intervention Response Inventory assesses the delicate balance of responses needed when someone is suicidal. To assess its reliability and validity, 177 practice leachers and 26 crisis-intervention volunteers completed it before and after a suicide-intervention training package. Internal reliability was strong (coefficient alpha = .83), Validity was modest. On the positive side, practice teachers who received training improved as expec…
Long-Term bereavement from suicide, homicide, accidents, and natural deaths
Previous research has indicated that short-term, bereavement from suicide is different from bereavement from other causes of death, at least in part because of diminished social support. To see if the same was true of long-term bereavement, college students who had been bereaved longer than 2 years (M = 5. 75 years) from suicide or homicide were matched on age, gender, and recency of the bereavement to students who were bereaved from accidental d…
No-Suicide Contracts Among College Students
Is Training in Psychology Associated With Increased Responsiveness to Suicidality
Family environment, depression, attitudes toward life and death, and suicidality in young adults
To examine the correlates of suicidality, 282 young adults at a medium-sized southern university completed measures of depression, family environment, attitudes toward life and death, and suicidality. Family cohesion accounted for 14.6% of the variance in suicidality, while repulsion by death and attraction to life accounted for an additional 1.3% and 1.4% of the variance in suicidality respectively. Suicidality was higher for young adults who re…
Suicidality, hopelessness, and attitudes toward life and death in children
To replicate and expand the Orbach, Gross, and Glaubman (1981) model of suicidal behavior in children, 60 children, ages 6 to 13, reported their own suicidal thoughts and behaviors using the Suicidal Behaviors Questionnaire (Linehan, 1981). Scores were correlated with the Jour dimensions of Orbach's model (attraction to life, repulsion by life, attraction to death, and repulsion by death) and with hopelessness using the Hopelessness Scale for Chi…
Events surrounding stillbirth and their effect on symptoms of depression among mothers
Women who experience stillbirth often report anxiety, depression, and loss of self-esteem afterward, but aspects of the pregnancy, such as length of pregnancy, seeing the baby after delivery, and seeing the baby as long as they wished might be associated with symptoms of depression. So, we sent an online, detailed questionnaire about their stillbirth experience and their current depression to two Facebook child loss support groups. A total of 66 …
Responding to Suicidal Calls
To see if trait anxiety and suicidality interfered with the ability to respond to suicidal crisis calls, 279 undergraduates completed measures of trait anxiety and suicidality in the past week, and the revised Suicide Intervention Response Inventory (SIRI-2). Unexpectedly, trait anxiety (but not suicidality) correlated with better SIRI-2 scores. In addition, students scored significantly more like the experts on the SIRI-2 if they were European-A…
Effects of Sentencing Options and Strict/Lenient Instructions on Convicting Suicide Attempters
Sentence and strictness of instructions influence juries' willingness to convict. To see whether this result holds for suicide attempters, 240 undergraduates read jury instructions for a suicide attempt that varied sentence (jail term, fine, community service, or mandatory counseling) and instructions, voted guilty / not guilty, and rated their certainty and effectiveness. With sentences of 25 hours mandatory counseling, or strict instructions, m…
The escape theory of suicide and perfectionism in college students
A preliminary model of the escape theory of suicide was tested in 168 college students (52 males, 116 females), who completed self-report measures of self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially prescribed perfectionism, negative life stress, depression, hopelessness, anxiety, reasons for living, and suicidal behaviors. A path analysis provided only partial validation for the model and accounted for 26% of the variance in suicidal behaviors. None …
Factor structure of adolescents' scores on the reasons for living inventory
The Reasons for Living Inventory (RFL) has been shown to be reliable and valid for adults. To ascertain its factor structure and internal consistency for adolescents, 128 southern high school students (mean age = 1.5 years) and 145 adolescent college students completed it. A six factor solution to a principal components factor analysis followed by varimax rotation accounted for 53.6% and 49.8% of the variance in the two groups. For both groups, C…
Personality Correlates of Multiple Choice Answer-Changing Patterns
On multiple-choice tests, 52 anxious college students changed answers significantly more often than nonanxious students. Nondepressed students, and those who held a positive view of the nature of man, were more successful in changing answers. Student's who made B's were more successful than C students in changing answers
Public reactions to child suicide
In two separate experiments, a total of 180 citizens at a suburban shopping mall responded to questionnaires about a fictitious newspaper article describing a male child's suicidal death. In Experiment I (90 subjects), the child's age was reported as either 10, 131⁄2, or 17. In Experiment II, an additional 90 subjects responded to a fictitious newspaper article describing a 10-year-old boy's suicidal death by gunshot, hanging, or drug overdose. S…
Generational differences in reactions to adolescent suicide
In order to assess generational differences in reactions to an adolescent suicide, college students (n = 56) and their parents (n = 112) were asked to respond to a fictitious report of an adolescent's either suicidal or non-suicidal death. Consistent with previous research, both generations said that (a) the suicidal youth was more psychologically disturbed than was the youth who died of a viral illness and (b) the youth's mother was more psychol…
Students' Attitudes toward Hypothetical Chronically and Acutely Mentally and Physically Ill Individuals
To assess attitudes toward chronically and acutely mentally and physically ill individuals, 106 undergraduates read one of four vignettes describing a hospitalized individual, with each vignette divided along the factors of diagnosis (schizophrenia or cancer) and chronicity (acute or chronic). Then they completed the Community Acceptance Scale and responded to 19 rationally derived paired adjectives. A series of 2 × 2 univariate analyses indicate…
Community attitudes toward childhood suicide and attempted suicide
To assess whether people's reactions to family members of child suicide attemptors were similar to reactions to family members of (a) actual suicides and (b) actual suicides that were preceded by a failed suicide attempt, 120 shoppers (60 men and 60 women) read and responded to one of five short newspaper articles about an incident of a 10-year-old child who either (a) attempted suicide, (b) committed suicide, (c) committed suicide after a previo…
Characteristics of suicidal individuals
Evidence on the demographic characteristics of suicidal people is mixed. Demograph-ically, at relatively higher risk are men, whites, older adults or adolescents, and native Americans. In terms of personality, suicidal individuals are described as having maladaptive affect (depressed, irritable, aroused, and socially isolated) or maladaptive cognitions (hopeless, having negative expectations, field dependent, cog-nitively rigid, and impulsive). I…
Does television induce suicidal contagion with adolescents
In an attempt to assess what adolescents think they would do if they knew of previous adolescent suicides, 116 high school students viewed a videotaped vignette of a distressed high school student and were asked to imagine that they were she. They were then given an information sheet summarizing the vignette. One third of the information sheets contained an embedded sentence that two friends had recently committed suicide, another third a sentenc…
Responses following Suicide and Other Types of Death
In order to compare the bereavement experience following different types of death, fifty-seven university students who had recently lost a friend or relative by suicide, accident, homicide, natural anticipated death, or natural unanticipated death were interviewed about their reactions and how they were treated by others. Those bereaved through suicide appeared to share a common core of experiences with all other groups, particularly as compared …
How Knowledge of Extenuating Circumstances Influences Community Reactions toward Suicide Victims and their Bereaved Families
Since suicide is self-determined, the circumstances of the victim's life may influence people's responses. To assess this possibility, 180 undergraduate volunteers read a fictitious newspaper article about a thirty-five-year-old man who committed suicide following one of eight extenuating circumstances: psychological pain (bankruptcy, incarceration, bereavement, graduate school), physical pain (burns, arthritis), or terminal illness (AIDS, termin…
Reactions to suicide
To assess reactions to suicidal and viral illness deaths of people of varying ages, 85 undergraduates completed the Youth Suicide Scale, which was modified to contain information about either a 10-, 18-, 30-, or 65-year-old's death. Consistent with past research, reactions to suicide were more negative, with participants seeing the individual and family as disturbed; and seeing the family as sad, blameworthy, unlikeable, in need of professional h…
Long-Term bereavement from suicide, homicide, accidents, and natural deaths
Previous research has indicated that short-term, bereavement from suicide is different from bereavement from other causes of death, at least in part because of diminished social support. To see if the same was true of long-term bereavement, college students who had been bereaved longer than 2 years (M = 5. 75 years) from suicide or homicide were matched on age, gender, and recency of the bereavement to students who were bereaved from accidental d…
College and University Student Suicide
Suicide among college and university students is unquestionably an important issue on the nation's college campuses. This is true not only because of the frequency of suicidal attempts/completions, but also because of the severe trauma often precipitated by suicide. Although there are numerous writings discussing the general phenomenon of suicide -and in particular child and adolescent suicide -less has been written concerning suicidal trends spe…
Differences Between Blacks and Whites, Women and Men, in Reasons for Living
Most research has shown that there are race differences in suicide rates (deCatanzaro, 1981), with Blacks being about half as likely to die by suicide as Whites (4.6 versus 11.3 per 100,000, annually). Among teenagers, a particularly high-risk group, there was a ratio of nearly one non-White suicide to two White suicides in 1981 (National Center for Health Statistics, 1984). There are also gender differences in suicide rates. Depending on age, th…
Purpose in Life
For those with relatively low purpose in life, the experience of bereavement may induce an existential crisis, particularly if the cause of death is suicide. To assess whether this happens in recent bereavement, 122 people (31% of those who received questionnaires) recently bereaved (mode < two years) completed scales measuring life purpose, life satisfaction, reasons for living, and social support. Multivariate analysis followed by univariate an…
Extenuating Circumstances in Perceptions of Suicide
If a person is terminally ill, people are more tolerant of the suicide. To see if illness type, pain level, and life expectancy affected reactions toward a terminal illness suicide, 160 undergraduates completed community support, social interaction, and suicide scales about Pat, who had either AIDS or cancer, a lot or a little pain, and six months or two years to live. A 2 (Diagnosis) × 2 (Pain Level) × 2 (Life Expectancy) MANOVA yielded signific…
Recent Bereavement from Suicide and other Deaths
To assess whether nonbereaved people could accurately imagine the experience of recent bereavement, especially following different causes of death, ninety-two undergraduates (36 men, 56 women), half of whom were bereaved in the past year, and half of whom were not, in a yoked design reported or imagined the subjective impact of the, death, prognosis for outcome, and perceived social support. Death was by suicide ( n = 10), accident ( n = 11), ant…
Belief in Afterlife as a Buffer in Suicidal and other Bereavement
To assess whether degree of belief in afterlife enhanced bereavement recovery following different types of death (suicide, homicide, accidental, and natural), 121 bereaved persons (31% of those asked) whose names were obtained from funeral homes or bereavement groups completed scales measuring belief in afterlife, impact of event, perceived recovery, spiritual well-being, emotional pain, and social support. Multivariate main effects were found fo…
Helpful and Unhelpful Comments after Suicide, Homicide, Accident, or Natural Death
Comments made to recently bereaved persons may be experienced as helpful or unhelpful. To see helpfulness ratings varied depending on the cause of the death, 141 college students rated thirty potentially comforting remarks which might be made to a recently bereaved person. They were told that the death was either natural and anticipated, natural and unanticipated, a suicide, a homicide, or accidental. ANOVAs revealed that six of the thirty respon…
Suicide ideas
The relationship of suicide to depression has been documented, but fewer data have been gathered on the relationship between suicide and personality disorders. A recent, well-validated instrument, the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI), identifies personality disorders as well as clinical syndromes, but has not yet been used for identifying suicidal individuals. To determine this relationship, 36 drug and alcohol inpatients and 212 under…
Reliability and validity of the suicide intervention response inventory
The Suicide Intervention Response Inventory assesses the delicate balance of responses needed when someone is suicidal. To assess its reliability and validity, 177 practice leachers and 26 crisis-intervention volunteers completed it before and after a suicide-intervention training package. Internal reliability was strong (coefficient alpha = .83), Validity was modest. On the positive side, practice teachers who received training improved as expec…
Loneliness and depression related to reasons for living in military personnel
To assess the relationships of loneliness and depression to reasons for living, 288 military enlistees took measures of each at their debriefings following completion of boot camp. Average scores showed that these enlisted personnel reported little depression or loneliness and indicated strong reasons for living. A stepwise multiple regression indicated that loneliness scores significantly predicted reasons for living, whereas depression did not …
Bereavement following Suicide and Other Deaths
To assess perceptions both of bereaved individuals and of potential comforters across five causes of death, 400 undergraduate volunteers were screened in order to find 112 who either were bereaved in the past two years, or were not but matched a bereaved individual in age and gender. Non-bereaved individuals imagined that they knew and had to talk to someone bereaved under the same circumstances as their yoked bereaved person. Bereaved individual…
Suicidality, hopelessness, and attitudes toward life and death in children
To replicate and expand the Orbach, Gross, and Glaubman (1981) model of suicidal behavior in children, 60 children, ages 6 to 13, reported their own suicidal thoughts and behaviors using the Suicidal Behaviors Questionnaire (Linehan, 1981). Scores were correlated with the Jour dimensions of Orbach's model (attraction to life, repulsion by life, attraction to death, and repulsion by death) and with hopelessness using the Hopelessness Scale for Chi…
College students' hypothetical responses to suicidal individuals who are hiv positive, substance abusing, depressed, or anxious
To see if specific circumstances encourage or discourage helpful responses to suicide threats, 141 undergraduates read a one-paragraph vignette about a suicidal person with either AIDS, depression, drug abuse, anxiety, or adjustment problems. Students then wrote five responses, which on average were mildly unhelpful regardless of circumstance. A suicidal person who was HIV positive engendered significantly less helpful responses than a suicidal p…
Factor structure of adolescents' scores on the reasons for living inventory
The Reasons for Living Inventory (RFL) has been shown to be reliable and valid for adults. To ascertain its factor structure and internal consistency for adolescents, 128 southern high school students (mean age = 1.5 years) and 145 adolescent college students completed it. A six factor solution to a principal components factor analysis followed by varimax rotation accounted for 53.6% and 49.8% of the variance in the two groups. For both groups, C…
Psychology (52 obras) · Medicine (43 obras) · Clinical Psychology (38 obras) · Psychiatry (35 obras) · Clinical Psychology (34 obras) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (33 obras) · Medical emergency (32 obras) · Poison control (32 obras) · Suicide prevention (31 obras) · Social Psychology (26 obras)