title: The content of suicide notes from attempters and completers.
abstract: A study of the content of suicide notes from attempted suicides and completed suicides was conducted using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) text analysis program. Notes from completed suicides had fewer metaphysical references, more future tense verbs, more social references (to others) and more positive emotions than did the notes from attempted suicides. The implications of these results were discussed.
authors.affiliation: Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Lori D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Handelman
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D015709:Correspondence as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012660:Semantics; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data