@article{ref1,
title="Risk-taking propensity, depression and parasuicide",
journal="Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry",
year="1976",
author="Spittle, B. and Bragan, K. and James, B.",
volume="10",
number="3",
pages="269-273",
abstract="One hundred patients admitted consecutively to an inpatient psychiatric unit were given questionnaires to measure risk-taking propensity and depression. The purpose was to study the relationship between risk-taking, depression, and recent suicide attempts. It was found that depressed patients showed a bimodal clustering towards the extremes of risk-taking. There was a history of suicide attempts only when a certain threshold of risk-taking was exceeded. These findings are discussed with relation to defensive styles of psychological adaptation and to arousal thresholds.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0004-8674",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}