Dorian A Lamis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 96013 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dorian A Lamis |
| NOMBRES | Dorian A |
| APELLIDO | Lamis |
| FIRMA | LAMIS D A |
| AFILIACIONES | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5405-0239 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Depressive Symptoms, Hazardous Alcohol Use, and Suicidality in Bipolar Disorder
INTRODUCTION: Bipolar disorder is linked to elevated rates of suicidal thoughts, behavior, and death by suicide. The objective of this study was to examine the contribution of depressive symptoms and hazardous alcohol use to suicidality within a predominantly low-income African American sample of individuals with bipolar disorder. METHOD: We recruited 204 patients with bipolar disorder from an urban public hospital's outpatient clinic in the Sout…
Childhood Maltreatment and Suicide Risk in Migrant Psychiatric Inpatients
BACKGROUND: Migrants are at increased risk for psychiatric disorders and suicidality due to cumulative adversities across all phases of migration. Childhood maltreatment is a well-known risk factor for depression and suicidal behavior, yet its specific contribution among migrant psychiatric patients remains insufficiently explored. AIMS: This study examined the associations between different forms of childhood maltreatment, depressive symptoms, a…
Self-efficacy as a Mediator of the Relation Between Psychotic Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation in Black American Women with a Recent History of Intimate Partner Violence
Musicians, the music industry, and suicide
Evidence suggests that popular musicians are an at-risk occupational group for suicide, with the deaths of famous musicians in the ‘27 Club’ reinforcing culturally powerful notions of musicianship and early mortality. This cross-disciplinary paper advances our understanding of the factors that may increase the risk for suicide among musicians and offers clinical recommendations around screening and prevention. First, we synthesise extant literatu…
Gatekeeper training for youth suicide prevention
The overriding aim of this study was to conduct a side‐by‐side comparative evaluation of two online suicide prevention gatekeeper‐training programs: Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) and Making Educators Partners in Youth Suicide Prevention (MEP). Specific aims included identifying program components, instructional methods, and technology elements that are well received by school personnel and that increase knowledge and self‐efficacy. QPR and MEP …
A Worldwide Study of the Relationship Between Gini Coefficients and Suicide Rates
Background: The Gini coefficient measures how much the distribution of income or consumption within an economy deviates from an equal distribution. However, there has been a paucity of research examining the association between Gini coefficients and suicide rates in the countries of the world. Objective: To prove the hypothesis that the higher the Gini coefficient, the larger the relative deprivation and the higher the suicide rate, and further t…
Psychometric properties and item evaluation of the life attitudes schedule
Suicide is a leading. cause of death for emerging adults, thus there is critical need for measurement tools to assess suicide risk. The Life Attitudes Schedule (LAS) and its short-form (LAS:SF) were designed to assess suicide proneness, a construct, representing one's propensity to engage in life diminishing/life-shortening behaviors, theoretically occurring before overt suicidal ideation. Despite the utility of assessing suicide proneness, the L…
Deprivation and Aspiration Strains as Function of Mental Health Among Chinese Adults
Background: China is in a period of rapid transformation of economic and social development. The imbalance in the distribution of social benefits, focusing on adjustment and reorganization, has led to an increase in relative deprivation. Studies have shown that relative deprivation leads to a decline in personal mental health. Methods: We used the national data in the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) collected in 2015 (N = 10,702; male 46.89%…
An intervention to improve the well-being of families in which African American grandmothers are raising grandchildren
Childhood maltreatment, impulsive aggression, and suicidality among patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder
Results from this study suggest that impulsive aggression exerts a wide-ranging impact on suicidality in the context of childhood trauma in those with bipolar disorder. In the future, targeted interventions to address the underlying etiologies of aggression may translate into an improved quality of life, decreased rates of suicidality, and positive clinical outcomes among individuals with bipolar disorder. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, …
Economic Development and Gender Ratio Change in Chinese Suicide Rates (1990–2017)
Objective : The overall gender ratio in Chinese suicide rates has substantially changed during the past three decades. In this study, we investigated the social economic factors and the mechanisms that may be contributing to this fluctuation. Study Design : This is a secondary analysis using suicide mortality data from the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Methods : A statistical model was performed with province as the unit of an…
Risk Assessment on Suicide Death and Attempt among Chinese Rural Youths Aged 15–34 Years
Background: Although many suicide risk assessment tools are available in the world, their validity is not adequately assessed. In this study, we aimed to develop and evaluate a suicide risk assessment model among Chinese rural youths aged 15-34 years. Method: Subjects were 373 suicide deaths and 507 suicide attempters aged 15-34 years in three Chinese provinces (Shandong, Liaoning, and Hunan). Information about the community residents was also co…
Adverse childhood experiences in African Americans
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) disproportionately impact African Americans because of profound subjection to historical-systemic oppression in addition to personal and intergenerational trauma exposure. This article utilizes a biopsychosocial-cultural framework to understand the correlates of ACE exposure in African Americans and attends to the cultural factors that contribute to resilience. We review the evidence base for culturally inform…
Cumulative Childhood Maltreatment and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Racial Identity Profiles Among Suicidal Black Women
Despite increasing rates of suicidality among African American women, relatively little is known about culturally-specific factors relevant to their suicidality. Thus, our objectives were to: (1) determine whether previously-identified racial identity profiles replicated in a clinical sample of African American women and (2) examine whether profiles differed on suicidal ideation, hopelessness, and depressive symptoms. In a sample of 198 low-incom…
Anxiety, Prenatal Attachment, and Depressive Symptoms in Women with Diabetes in Pregnancy
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between anxiety, prenatal attachment, and depressive symptoms among women with diabetes in pregnancy. Participants were 131 consecutive pregnant women between the ages of 20 and 45 with a diagnosis of gestational or pregestational type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Data on previous psychiatric symptoms were obtained from the Anamnestic and Social Questionnaire and the Mini-International Neuropsyc…
Job Satisfaction Mediates the Association between Perceived Disability and Work Productivity in Migraine Headache Patients
Migraine headache is the cause of an estimated 250,000,000 lost days from work or school every year and is often associated with decreased work productivity. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess the relationship between perceived disability, job satisfaction and work productivity in patients affected by chronic migraineurs. Participants were 98 consecutive adult outpatients admitted to the Regional Referral Headache Centre of the S…
A Protective Model for Suicidal Behaviors in American and Pakistani College Students
There is a paucity of cross-national studies evaluating protective models for suicidal behaviors. Thus, using a behavioral framework, the purpose of this study was to examine whether higher levels of life-enhancing behaviors could mitigate or weaken the relation between depressive symptoms and suicidal behaviors in United States and Pakistani college students. A total of 811 students (449 Pakistani and 362 U.S. students) participated in the study…
Risk factors for suicide attempts among rural youth with a history of suicidal ideation
Youths in rural areas have approximately double the risk for suicide than do urban youth. This study analyzed data from 580 youth aged 10 to 17-years-old who endorsed lifetime suicidal ideation on intake at three large rural behavioral health centers. Results indicated that a five-factor model including older age, number of inpatient hospitalizations, gender (female), impaired legal functioning, and higher impulsivity accounted for the most varia…
Self-Criticism and Depressive Symptoms
Self-compassion is gaining recognition as a resilience factor with implications for positive mental health. This study investigated the role of self-compassion in alleviating the effect of self-criticism on depressive symptoms. Participants were 147 urban, low-income African Americans with a recent suicide attempt. They were administered measures of self-criticism, depressive symptoms, and self-compassion. Results from this cross-sectional invest…
Intimate Partner Sexual Coercion Mediates the Childhood Sexual Abuse-Suicidal Ideation Link Among African American Women
Suicide is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among women. Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and intimate partner violence are significant risk factors for suicidal ideation among women. The purpose of this study was to examine the interrelationships among these three constructs and test if intimate partner sexual coercion may explain the CSA-suicidal ideation link. African American women ( N = 141) completed an assessment of childhood trauma,…
Procrastination and suicide proneness
This study examined the direct and indirect paths between procrastination and suicide proneness while considering gender differences. Participants included 547 undergraduates from a southeastern university. Procrastination was positively related to suicide proneness for both genders, although this relation was stronger for women. Moderated-mediation analyses with bootstrapping highlighted insufficient self-control schemas as a mediator in the rel…
Optimism, well-being, and perceived stigma in individuals living with HIV
Given the significant psychological challenges posed by HIV-related stigma for individuals living with HIV, investigating psychological resource factors for coping with HIV-related stigma is important. Optimism, which refers to generalized expectations regarding favorable outcomes, has been associated with enhanced psychological adaptation to health conditions, including HIV. Therefore, this cross-sectional study investigated associations among o…
Impulsivity and Reasons for Living Among African American Youth
This study aims to explore the impact of specific facets of impulsivity as measured by the UPPS Impulsive Behavior Scale (UPPS), as well as reasons for living in predicting suicidal ideation among African American college-aged students. The incremental validity of each facet of the UPPS interacting with reasons for living, a construct meant to buffer against risk for suicide, was explored in a sample of African American students (N = 130; ages 18…
Emotion Regulation and Mentalization in People at Risk for Food Addiction
Researchers investigated the association among food addiction, difficulties in emotion regulation, and mentalization deficits in a sample of 322 Italian adults from the general population. All participants were administered the Italian versions of the Yale Food Addiction Scale (I-YFAS), the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, the Mentalization Questionnaire, the Binge Eating Scale, and the Michigan Alcohol Screening Test. Of respondents, 7.…
Sexual Attraction Status and Adolescent Suicide Proneness
This study explored the relationship between sexual attraction status (same-sex, both-sex, and opposite-sex) and suicidal behavior in a diverse sample of adolescents (N = 1,533 youth). Adolescents with attractions to both sexes reported greater suicide proneness, recent and lifetime suicidal ideation, and past suicide attempts than those with exclusively opposite-sex attractions; individuals reporting same-sex attractions generally demonstrated m…
Mediating Effects of Existential and Religious Well-Being Among Abused, Suicidal African American Women
Developing the Psychological Strain Scales (PSS)
Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation Among African American and European American College Women
Given that suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students, it is important to identify risk factors that may contribute to college students’ suicide. Our study examined the differences in risk factors of suicidal ideation between 99 African American and 529 European American college women (18–24 years old). The only significant difference that was reported between the two groups of women was on hopelessness, with African Amer…
Psychometric Properties of a Suicide Screen for Adjudicated Youth in Residential Care
There is a need to efficiently and effectively screen adjudicated youth residing within the juvenile justice system for suicide proneness. Accordingly, in the current study, the psychometric properties of the Life Attitude Schedule: Short Form (LAS:S), a 24-item risk assessment for suicide proneness, were assessed using data from adjudicated youth residing in an alternative sentencing facility (n = 130). As predicted, statistically significant co…
Cumulative Childhood Maltreatment and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Risk factors for suicide attempts among rural youth with a history of suicidal ideation
Youths in rural areas have approximately double the risk for suicide than do urban youth. This study analyzed data from 580 youth aged 10 to 17-years-old who endorsed lifetime suicidal ideation on intake at three large rural behavioral health centers. Results indicated that a five-factor model including older age, number of inpatient hospitalizations, gender (female), impaired legal functioning, and higher impulsivity accounted for the most varia…
Intimate Partner Sexual Coercion Mediates the Childhood Sexual Abuse-Suicidal Ideation Link Among African American Women
Suicide is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among women. Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and intimate partner violence are significant risk factors for suicidal ideation among women. The purpose of this study was to examine the interrelationships among these three constructs and test if intimate partner sexual coercion may explain the CSA-suicidal ideation link. African American women ( N = 141) completed an assessment of childhood trauma,…
Child Abuse, Social Support, and Social Functioning in African American Children
Hopelessness and Suicide Proneness in U.S. and Japanese College Students
Few empirical studies have focused on the associations among suicide proneness, hopelessness, and depression cross-culturally. The current study examined the potential to determine differences in the overall expression of suicide proneness between Japanese ( n = 396) as compared with U.S. ( n = 417) college students. Depressive symptoms were considered as a potential mediator of the relation between hopelessness and suicide proneness in both samp…
Suicide risk and psychopathology in immigrants
Reasons for Living and Alcohol Use Among College Students
Heavy alcohol consumption is prevalent on many college campuses and alcohol use has been linked to suicidal behavior. The present study examined reasons for living in 287 college students with varying levels of risk for alcohol-related problems. With the exception of the moral objections subscale of the Reasons for Living Inventory, significant relationships were not detected between alcohol use risk levels and reasons for living. The field is ri…
Adaptive Characteristics and Suicidal Behavior
Differences in suicidal behavior and adaptive characteristics were examined in college students with a particular emphasis on gender differences. Participants consisted of 344 undergraduate students who were administered a revised version of the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire (SBQ), the Expanded Reasons for Living Inventory (RFL), and a demographic questionnaire. Results of this study suggest that there are significant differences between levels…
Adaptive Characteristics and Suicidal Behavior
Differences in suicidal behavior and adaptive characteristics were examined in college students with a particular emphasis on gender differences. Participants consisted of 344 undergraduate students who were administered a revised version of the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire (SBQ), the Expanded Reasons for Living Inventory (RFL), and a demographic questionnaire. Results of this study suggest that there are significant differences between levels…
Reasons for Living and Alcohol Use Among College Students
Heavy alcohol consumption is prevalent on many college campuses and alcohol use has been linked to suicidal behavior. The present study examined reasons for living in 287 college students with varying levels of risk for alcohol-related problems. With the exception of the moral objections subscale of the Reasons for Living Inventory, significant relationships were not detected between alcohol use risk levels and reasons for living. The field is ri…
A mixture-model approach to linking ADHD to adolescent onset of illicit drug use
Prior research findings have been mixed as to whether attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is related to illicit drug use independent of conduct problems (CP). With the current study, the authors add to this literature by investigating the association between trajectories of ADHD symptoms across childhood and adolescence and onset of illicit drug use, with and without controlling for CP. In a longitudinal panel study of a community sam…
Sexual Attraction Status and Adolescent Suicide Proneness
This study explored the relationship between sexual attraction status (same-sex, both-sex, and opposite-sex) and suicidal behavior in a diverse sample of adolescents (N = 1,533 youth). Adolescents with attractions to both sexes reported greater suicide proneness, recent and lifetime suicidal ideation, and past suicide attempts than those with exclusively opposite-sex attractions; individuals reporting same-sex attractions generally demonstrated m…
Psychometric Properties of a Suicide Screen for Adjudicated Youth in Residential Care
There is a need to efficiently and effectively screen adjudicated youth residing within the juvenile justice system for suicide proneness. Accordingly, in the current study, the psychometric properties of the Life Attitude Schedule: Short Form (LAS:S), a 24-item risk assessment for suicide proneness, were assessed using data from adjudicated youth residing in an alternative sentencing facility (n = 130). As predicted, statistically significant co…
Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation Among African American and European American College Women
Given that suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students, it is important to identify risk factors that may contribute to college students’ suicide. Our study examined the differences in risk factors of suicidal ideation between 99 African American and 529 European American college women (18–24 years old). The only significant difference that was reported between the two groups of women was on hopelessness, with African Amer…
Suicide risk and psychopathology in immigrants
A Systematic Review Process to Evaluate Suicide Prevention Programs
The Guide to Community Preventive Services (Guide), one of the most rigorous methods of systematic reviews, was adopted to evaluate the effectiveness of 16 community, primarily youth, suicide prevention interventions, through a multisectoral collaboration. The Guide steps for obtaining and evaluating evidence on effectiveness include: forming a multidisciplinary team; developing a conceptual approach to organizing, grouping, selecting, and evalua…
Intimate Partner Violence, Spiritual Well-Being, and Parenting Stress in African-American Women
Sequelae associated with intimate partner violence (IPV) include negative emotional, physical, and parenting outcomes. This study explored spiritual well-being as a potential mediator of the relations between IPV (physical and nonphysical abuse) and parenting stress scores in a sample of 152 low-income, African-American women. Path analytic models identified spiritual well-being as a mediator of the nonphysical (but not physical)–IPV parenting st…
The association between suicide and the utilization of mental health services in South Tirol, Italy
AIMS: The aim of the present study was to investigate potential differences between suicide decedents who had contact with a psychologist or psychiatrist before committing suicide and those individuals who had not had previous contact with a mental health professional prior to ending their lives. METHODS: Psychological autopsy interviews (N = 396) were conducted for individuals who died by suicide between 1997 and 2007 in South Tirol, Italy. RESU…
Existential Well-Being, Drug Abuse, and Parenting Stress in African American Women
Social support, attachment, and drug misuse in suicidal African American women
This study examined social support and attachment in women with and without drug misuse. Data were collected from 146 African American female suicide attempters who presented at an inner-city hospital. MANOVAs revealed that compared to their counterparts who did not misuse drugs, women who reported drug misuse had lower levels of family and friend support (Social Support Behaviours Scale), lower scores on secure attachment and higher scores on fe…
Child Abuse, Social Support, and Social Functioning in African American Children
Hopelessness and Suicide Proneness in U.S. and Japanese College Students
Few empirical studies have focused on the associations among suicide proneness, hopelessness, and depression cross-culturally. The current study examined the potential to determine differences in the overall expression of suicide proneness between Japanese ( n = 396) as compared with U.S. ( n = 417) college students. Depressive symptoms were considered as a potential mediator of the relation between hopelessness and suicide proneness in both samp…
Developing the Psychological Strain Scales (PSS)
Optimism, well-being, and perceived stigma in individuals living with HIV
Given the significant psychological challenges posed by HIV-related stigma for individuals living with HIV, investigating psychological resource factors for coping with HIV-related stigma is important. Optimism, which refers to generalized expectations regarding favorable outcomes, has been associated with enhanced psychological adaptation to health conditions, including HIV. Therefore, this cross-sectional study investigated associations among o…
Impulsivity and Reasons for Living Among African American Youth
This study aims to explore the impact of specific facets of impulsivity as measured by the UPPS Impulsive Behavior Scale (UPPS), as well as reasons for living in predicting suicidal ideation among African American college-aged students. The incremental validity of each facet of the UPPS interacting with reasons for living, a construct meant to buffer against risk for suicide, was explored in a sample of African American students (N = 130; ages 18…
Emotion Regulation and Mentalization in People at Risk for Food Addiction
Researchers investigated the association among food addiction, difficulties in emotion regulation, and mentalization deficits in a sample of 322 Italian adults from the general population. All participants were administered the Italian versions of the Yale Food Addiction Scale (I-YFAS), the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, the Mentalization Questionnaire, the Binge Eating Scale, and the Michigan Alcohol Screening Test. Of respondents, 7.…
Mediating Effects of Existential and Religious Well-Being Among Abused, Suicidal African American Women
Procrastination and suicide proneness
This study examined the direct and indirect paths between procrastination and suicide proneness while considering gender differences. Participants included 547 undergraduates from a southeastern university. Procrastination was positively related to suicide proneness for both genders, although this relation was stronger for women. Moderated-mediation analyses with bootstrapping highlighted insufficient self-control schemas as a mediator in the rel…
Self-Criticism and Depressive Symptoms
Self-compassion is gaining recognition as a resilience factor with implications for positive mental health. This study investigated the role of self-compassion in alleviating the effect of self-criticism on depressive symptoms. Participants were 147 urban, low-income African Americans with a recent suicide attempt. They were administered measures of self-criticism, depressive symptoms, and self-compassion. Results from this cross-sectional invest…
Intimate Partner Sexual Coercion Mediates the Childhood Sexual Abuse-Suicidal Ideation Link Among African American Women
Suicide is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among women. Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and intimate partner violence are significant risk factors for suicidal ideation among women. The purpose of this study was to examine the interrelationships among these three constructs and test if intimate partner sexual coercion may explain the CSA-suicidal ideation link. African American women ( N = 141) completed an assessment of childhood trauma,…
Job Satisfaction Mediates the Association between Perceived Disability and Work Productivity in Migraine Headache Patients
Migraine headache is the cause of an estimated 250,000,000 lost days from work or school every year and is often associated with decreased work productivity. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess the relationship between perceived disability, job satisfaction and work productivity in patients affected by chronic migraineurs. Participants were 98 consecutive adult outpatients admitted to the Regional Referral Headache Centre of the S…
A Protective Model for Suicidal Behaviors in American and Pakistani College Students
There is a paucity of cross-national studies evaluating protective models for suicidal behaviors. Thus, using a behavioral framework, the purpose of this study was to examine whether higher levels of life-enhancing behaviors could mitigate or weaken the relation between depressive symptoms and suicidal behaviors in United States and Pakistani college students. A total of 811 students (449 Pakistani and 362 U.S. students) participated in the study…
Risk factors for suicide attempts among rural youth with a history of suicidal ideation
Youths in rural areas have approximately double the risk for suicide than do urban youth. This study analyzed data from 580 youth aged 10 to 17-years-old who endorsed lifetime suicidal ideation on intake at three large rural behavioral health centers. Results indicated that a five-factor model including older age, number of inpatient hospitalizations, gender (female), impaired legal functioning, and higher impulsivity accounted for the most varia…
Psychology (35 obras) · Medicine (33 obras) · Psychiatry (30 obras) · Clinical Psychology (28 obras) · Poison control (26 obras) · Suicide prevention (26 obras) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (25 obras) · Clinical Psychology (24 obras) · Injury prevention (14 obras) · Medical emergency (13 obras)