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| Jameson K HirschSummaryAffiliation: Rochester Institute of Technology Country: USA Publications
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Optimism and suicide ideation among young adult college studentsJameson K Hirsch
Rochester Institute of Technology, Department of Psychology and Center for Study and Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
Arch Suicide Res 11:177-85. 2007..Prevention programs designed to enhance optimism in the college setting might decrease suicide risk...
Future orientation moderates the relationship between functional status and suicide ideation in depressed adultsJameson K Hirsch
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
Depress Anxiety 24:196-201. 2007..Although prospective research is needed to test more rigorously the hypothesized protective role of positive future orientation, our data suggest that treatments designed to enhance future orientation might decrease suicide risk...
Future orientation and suicide ideation and attempts in depressed adults ages 50 and overJameson K Hirsch
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 14:752-7. 2006..The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that future orientation is associated with lower levels of suicide ideation and lower likelihood of suicide attempt in a sample of patients in treatment for major depression...
A review of the literature on rural suicide: risk and protective factors, incidence, and preventionJameson K Hirsch
Department of Psychology, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
Crisis 27:189-99. 2006..Suicide is a major cause of mortality worldwide. Differences in rates of suicide exist between urban and rural areas; however, little rigorous research has examined the phenomena of rural suicide...
Positive affect and suicide ideation in older adult primary care patientsJameson K Hirsch
Department of Psychology, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
Psychol Aging 22:380-5. 2007..Clinical and theoretical formulations of late-life suicide should consider the role of positive affect, including the possibility that its protective effects grow more pronounced with age...
Race and ethnic differences in hope and hopelessness as moderators of the association between depressive symptoms and suicidal behaviorJameson K Hirsch
Department of Psychology, Laboratory of Rural Psychological and Physical Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee 37614, USA
J Am Coll Health 60:115-25. 2012..The authors examined trait hope and hopelessness as potential moderators of the association between depressive symptoms and suicidal behavior...
Health status and suicide in the second half of lifeYeates Conwell
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester UR, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 25:371-9. 2010..To examine the associations of suicide in the second half of life with medical and psychiatric illness, functional limitations, and reported use of inpatient, ambulatory, and home health care services...
Optimistic explanatory style as a moderator of the association between negative life events and suicide ideationJameson K Hirsch
Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA
Crisis 30:48-53. 2009..Individuals who attribute negative life events to external, transient, and specific factors, rather than internal, stable, and global self-characteristics, may experience fewer deleterious outcomes, including suicidal behavior...
Functional impairment and depressive symptoms in older adults: Mitigating effects of hopeJameson K Hirsch
Laboratory of Rural Psychological and Physical Health, Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA
Br J Health Psychol 16:744-60. 2011..We examined trait hopefulness and its component subscales of agency and pathways as potential moderators of the association between functional impairment and depressive symptoms, hypothesizing that hopefulness would buffer this association...
Chronic medical problems and distressful thoughts of suicide in primary care patients: mitigating role of happinessJameson K Hirsch
Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 24:671-9. 2009..Feelings of happiness may reduce this risk. We tested the hypothesis that happiness attenuates the association between number of self-reported chronic diseases and suicidal distress...
Dispositional and explanatory style optimism as potential moderators of the relationship between hopelessness and suicidal ideationJameson K Hirsch
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY 14642 8409, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 36:661-9. 2006..Optimism may be an important moderator of the association. The development of treatments to enhance optimism may complement standard treatments to reduce suicidality that target depression and hopelessness...
A preliminary study of perfectionism and loneliness as predictors of depressive and anxious symptoms in Latinas: a top-down test of a modelEdward C Chang
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
J Couns Psychol 58:441-8. 2011..Implications of the present findings for future research on negative affective conditions in Latinas are discussed...
Illness burden and symptoms of anxiety in older adults: optimism and pessimism as moderatorsJameson K Hirsch
Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee 37614, USA
Int Psychogeriatr 24:1614-21. 2012....
Positive social support, negative social exchanges, and suicidal behavior in college studentsJameson K Hirsch
Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
J Am Coll Health 59:393-8. 2011..The authors examined the independent contributions of positive social support and negative social exchanges to suicide ideation and attempts in college students...
Functional impairment, illness burden, and depressive symptoms in older adults: does type of social relationship matter?Joshua P Hatfield
Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 28:190-8. 2013..We examined the potential moderating effects of social support, as a buffer, and family criticism, as an exacerbating factor, on the association between illness burden, functional impairment and depressive symptoms...
Perceived health in lung cancer patients: the role of positive and negative affectJameson K Hirsch
Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, USA
Qual Life Res 21:187-94. 2012....
Precontemplated and impulsive suicide attempts among individuals with alcohol dependenceKenneth R Conner
Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide and Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14620, USA
J Stud Alcohol 67:95-101. 2006..Some suicide attempts are precontemplated, whereas other attempts are impulsive. The purpose of this study was to compare characteristics and correlates of impulsive and precontemplated suicide attempts...
Planning of suicide attempts among depressed inpatients ages 50 and overKenneth R Conner
Department of Psychiatry Center for Study and Prevention of Suicide University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Blvd Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Affect Disord 97:123-8. 2007....
