@article{ref1,
title="Does the experience of interpersonal predictors of suicidal desire predict positive attitudes toward physician assisted suicide?",
journal="OMEGA - Journal of death and dying",
year="2014",
author="Tucker, Raymond P. and Buchanan, Carmen A. and O'Keefe, Victoria M. and Wingate, LaRicka R.",
volume="69",
number="2",
pages="137-149",
abstract="The current study examined the relationship between Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) attitudes and interpersonal risk factors of suicidal desire as outlined by the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior (Joiner, 2005). It was hypothesized that both thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness would be positively related to PAS acceptance. <br><br>RESULTS indicated that thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness predicted significance of favorable attitudes toward PAS in a college sample. <br><br>RESULTS suggest that attitudes toward PAS may be influenced by the experience of thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness and provide a clear rationale for the study of these variables in populations more apt to consider hastened death. Future work regarding the application of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior in hastened death research is discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0030-2228",
doi="10.2190/OM.69.2.c",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/OM.69.2.c"
}