Citation

Lester D. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 1991; 100(4): 604-606.

Affiliation

Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, New Jersey 08012.

Comment On:

J Abnorm Psychol 1986;95(2):123-30

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1757675

Abstract

A recent study by Tomlinson-Keasey, Warren, and Elliott (1986) found differences between completed suicides in Terman's sample of gifted children and comparison subjects. The present article suggests that the differences identified in Tomlinson-Keasey et al. may have been confounded by the fact that completed suicides are typically found to have higher levels of psychiatric disturbance than nonsuicides. Data are presented to illustrate that when the completed suicides in Terman's sample are matched for psychiatric disturbance with the comparison subjects, few differences are found.

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