BACKGROUND Major negative life events are associated with higher suicidality. In this association, two mediating paths were hypothesized: (a) via minor negative life events and (b) via depression. METHODS Ninety-six adolescent primary care patients were recruited in clinics, a physician's office, and school nurses' offices. RESULTS (1) Minor negative life events were associated with depress...

Over 2,000 adults in their sixties completed the Centrality of Event Scale (CES) for the traumatic or negative event that now troubled them the most and for their most positive life event, as well as measures of current PTSD symptoms, depression, well-being, and personality. Consistent with the notion of a positivity bias in old age, the positive events were judged to be markedly more central t...

introduction: unfortunately, the prevalence of traumatic events among children is quite high. these events will result in different kinds of affective, cognitive and behavioral problems. this study examines the frequency of life traumatic events and their psychological impacts in the urban students of kermanshah in 2006. materials and methods: using cluster random sampling, 475 primary and seco...

This study was designed to assess relations among alcohol use, alcohol-related problems, negative-life events, depressive symptoms, and suicide proneness in a cross-sectional sample of undergraduate college students (N = 1100). Alcohol use was assumed to be causally prior to alcohol-related problems and negative life events, which were in turn modeled as occurring prior to depressive symptoms, ...