Representative Publications
Firearms & Suicide
Anestis, M.D., & Houtsma, C. (in press). What I have is what I am: Differences in demographics, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and firearm behavior and beliefs between firearm owners who do and do not primarily identify as firearm owners. Journal of Psychiatric Research.
Anestis, M.D., Houtsma, C., Daruwala, S.E., & Butterworth, S.E. (in press). Firearm legislation and statewide suicide rates: The moderating role of household firearm ownership. Behavioral Sciences and the Law.
Anestis, M.D., Daruwala, S.E., & Carey, N. (in press). Suicide attempt trends leading up to and following gun lock changes in the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act. Journal of Aggression, Conflict, and Peace Research.
Goldberg, S.B., Tucker, R.P., Abbas, M., Schultz, M., Hiserodt, M., Thomas, K., Anestis, M.D., & Wyman, M.F. (in press). Firearm ownership and capability for suicide in post-deployment National Guard service members. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.
Anestis, M.D., Daruwala, S.E., & Capron, D.W. (2018). Firearm ownership, means safety, and suicidality. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Advance Online Publication.
Anestis, M.D., Butterworth, S.E., & Houtsma, C. (2018). Perceptions of firearms and suicide: The role of misinformation in storage practices and openness to means safety measures. Journal of Affective Disorders, 227, 530-535.
Anestis, M.D. (2018). Advancing suicide prevention through a focus on firearm safety. American Journal of Public Health, 107, 1701-1702.
Anestis, M.D., & Capron, D.W. (2018). Deadly experience: The association between firing a gun and various aspects of suicide risk. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 48, 699-708.
Butterworth, S.E., & Anestis, M.D. (2018). Political beliefs, region of residence, and openness to firearms means safety measures to prevent suicide. Archives of Suicide Research. Advance Online Publication.
Daruwala, S.E., Butterworth, S.E., & Anestis, M.D. (2018). Openness to firearm storage safety as a suicide prevention tool among those exposed to suicide: The role of perceived closeness to the suicide decedent. Psychiatry Research, 269, 437-443.
Houtsma, C., Butterworth, S.E., & Anestis, M.D. (2018). Firearm suicide: Pathways to risk and methods of prevention. Current Opinion in Psychology, 22, 7-11.
Butterworth, S.E., Daruwala, S.E., & Anestis, M.D. (2018). Firearm storage and shooting experience: Factors relevant to the practical capability for suicide. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 102, 52-56.
Anestis, M.D., Selby, E.A., & Butterworth, S.E. (2017). Rising longitudinal trajectories in state level suicide rates: The role of firearm suicide rates and firearm legislation. Preventive Medicine, 100, 159-166.
Anestis, M.D., Khazem, L.R., & Anestis, J.C. (2017). Differentiating suicide decedents who died using firearms from those who died using other methods. Psychiatry Research, 252, 23-28.
Anestis, M.D., Anestis, J.C., & Butterworth, S.E. (2017). Differing perspectives on analyzing data related to firearms and suicide. American Journal of Public Health. Advance online publication.
Anestis, M.D., & Capron, D.W. (2016). The associations between state veteran population rates, handgun legislation, and statewide suicide rates. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 74, 30-34.
Anestis, M.D. (2016). Prior suicide attempts are less common in suicide decedents who died by firearms relative to those who died by other means. Journal of Affective Disorders, 189, 106-109.
Anestis, M.D., & Anestis, J.C. (2015). Suicide rates and statewide laws regulating access and exposure to handguns. American Journal of Public Health, 105, 2049-2058.
Houtsma, C., & Anestis, M.D. (2017). Practical capability: The impact of handgun ownership among previous suicide attempters. Psychiatry Research, 258, 88-92.
Anestis, M.D., Khazem, L.R., Law, K.C., Houtsma, C., LeTard, R., Moberg, F., & Martin, R. (2015). The association between state laws regulating handgun ownership and suicide rates. American Journal of Public Health, 105. 2059-2067.
Khazem, L.R., Houtsma, C., Gratz, K.L., Tull, M.T., Green, B.A., & Anestis, M.D. (2016). Firearms matter: The moderating role of firearm storage in the association between current suicidal ideation and likelihood of future suicide attempts among United States military personnel. Military Psychology, 28, 25-33.
Stanley, I.H., Hom, M.A., Rogers, M.L., Anestis, M.D., & Joiner, T.E. (in press). Discussing firearm ownership and access as part of suicide risk assessment and prevention: "Means safety" versus "means restriction." Archives of Suicide Research.
Testing Assumptions about Suicide
Anestis, M.D., & Capron, D.W. (2016). An investigation of persistence through pain and distress as an amplifier of the relationship between suicidal ideation and suicidal behavior. Journal of Affective Disorders, 196, 78-82.
Anestis, M.D., Law, K.C., Jin, H., Houtsma, C., Khazem, L.R., & Assavedo, B.L. (2017). Treating the capability for suicide: A vital and understudied frontier in suicide prevention. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Advance Online Publication.
Anestis, M.D., Soberay, K.A., Gutierrez, P.M., Hernandez, T.D., & Joiner, T.E. (2014). Reconsidering the link between impulsivity and suicidal behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 18, 366-386.
Anestis, M.D., Joiner, T.E., Hanson, J.E., & Gutierrez, P.M. (2014). The modal suicide decedent did not consume alcohol just prior to the time of death: An analysis with implications for understanding suicidal behavior. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 123, 835-840.
Anestis, M.D., Joiner, T.E., Hanson, J.E., & Gutierrez, P.M. (2015). Response to commentary on the modal suicide decedent did not consume alcohol just prior to the time of death: An analysis with implications for understanding suicidal behavior. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 124, 460-461.
Anestis, M.D., Bryan, C.J., May, A.M., Law, K.C., Hagan, C.R., Bryan, A.O., Chu, C., Michaels, M.S., Selby, E.A., Klonsky, E.D., & Joiner, T.E. (2015). Dangerous words? An experimental investigation of the impact of detailed reporting about suicide on subsequent risk. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 71, 1031-1041.
Khazem, L.R., & Anestis, M.D. (in press). Thinking or doing? An examination of well-established suicide risk factors within the ideation-to-action framework. Psychiatry Research.
Law, K.C., Khazem, L.R., & Anestis, M.D. (2015). The role of emotion dysregulation in suicide as considered through the ideation to action framework. Current Opinion in Psychology, 3, 30-35.
Anestis, M.D., Kleiman, E.M., Lavender, J.M., Tull, M.T., & Gratz, K.L. (2014). The pursuit of death versus escape from negative affect: An examination of the nature of the relationship between emotion dysregulation and both suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self-injury. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 55, 1820-1830.
Anestis, M.D., Bagge, C.L., Tull, M.T., & Joiner, T.E. (2011). Clarifying the role of emotion dysregulation in the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior in an undergraduate sample. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 45, 603-611.
Military Suicide
Anestis, M.D., Mohn, R.S., Dorminey, J.W., & Green, B.A. (2018). Detecting underreporting of suicidal ideation among United States military personnel. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Advance Online Publication.
Martin, R.L., Bauer, B.W., Ramsey, K.L., Green, B.A., Capron, D.W., & Anestis, M.D. (2018). How distress tolerance mediates the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder and the interpersonal theory of suicide constructs in a US military sample. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Advance Online Publication.
Martin, R.L., Assavedo, B.L., Bryan, A.O., Green, B.A., Capron, D.W., Rudd, M.D., Bryan, C.J. & Anestis, M.D. (2018). The relationship between post-battle experiences and thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness in three United States military samples. Archives of Suicide Research, 21, 1-18.
Butterworth, S.E., Green, B.A., & Anestis, M.D. (2017). The association between specific combat experiences and aspects of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 78, 9-18. doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2017.06.003
Assavedo, B.L., Green, B.A., & Anestis, M.D. (2017). Military personnel compared to multiple suicide attempters: Interpersonal theory of suicide constructs. Death Studies. Advance Online Publication. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2017.1334013
Anestis, M.D., Khazem, L.R., Mohn, R.S., & Green, B.A. (2015). Testing the main hypotheses of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior in a large diverse sample of United States military personnel. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 60, 78-85.
Anestis, M.D., & Green, B.A. (2015). The effect of varying levels of confidentiality on disclosure of suicidal thoughts in a sample of United States National Guard personnel. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 71, 1023-1030.
Khazem, L.R., Law, K.C., Green, B.A., & Anestis, M.D. (2015). Examining the relationship between coping strategies and suicidal desire in a sample of United States military personnel. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 57, 2-9.
Anestis, M.D., & Bryan, C.J. (2013). Means and capacity for suicidal behavior: A comparison of the ratio of suicide attempts and deaths by suicide in the US military and general population. Journal of Affective Disorders, 148, 42-47.
Bryan, C.J., & Anestis, M.D. (2011). Re-experiencing symptoms and the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior among deployed service members evaluated for traumatic brain injury. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 67, 856-864.
Bryan, C.J., Morrow, C.E., Anestis, M.D., & Joiner, T.E. (2010). A preliminary test of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior in a military sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 47-50.
Selby, E.A., Anestis, M.D., Bender, T.W., Riberio, J.D., Nock, M.K., Rudd, M.D., Bryan, C.J., Lim, I.C., Baker, M.T. Gutierrez, P.M., & Joiner, T.E. (2010). Overcoming the fear of lethal self-injury: Evaluating suicide in the military through the lens of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide. Clinical Psychology Review, 30, 298-307.
Anestis, M.D., & Houtsma, C. (in press). What I have is what I am: Differences in demographics, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and firearm behavior and beliefs between firearm owners who do and do not primarily identify as firearm owners. Journal of Psychiatric Research.
Anestis, M.D., Houtsma, C., Daruwala, S.E., & Butterworth, S.E. (in press). Firearm legislation and statewide suicide rates: The moderating role of household firearm ownership. Behavioral Sciences and the Law.
Anestis, M.D., Daruwala, S.E., & Carey, N. (in press). Suicide attempt trends leading up to and following gun lock changes in the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act. Journal of Aggression, Conflict, and Peace Research.
Goldberg, S.B., Tucker, R.P., Abbas, M., Schultz, M., Hiserodt, M., Thomas, K., Anestis, M.D., & Wyman, M.F. (in press). Firearm ownership and capability for suicide in post-deployment National Guard service members. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.
Anestis, M.D., Daruwala, S.E., & Capron, D.W. (2018). Firearm ownership, means safety, and suicidality. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Advance Online Publication.
Anestis, M.D., Butterworth, S.E., & Houtsma, C. (2018). Perceptions of firearms and suicide: The role of misinformation in storage practices and openness to means safety measures. Journal of Affective Disorders, 227, 530-535.
Anestis, M.D. (2018). Advancing suicide prevention through a focus on firearm safety. American Journal of Public Health, 107, 1701-1702.
Anestis, M.D., & Capron, D.W. (2018). Deadly experience: The association between firing a gun and various aspects of suicide risk. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 48, 699-708.
Butterworth, S.E., & Anestis, M.D. (2018). Political beliefs, region of residence, and openness to firearms means safety measures to prevent suicide. Archives of Suicide Research. Advance Online Publication.
Daruwala, S.E., Butterworth, S.E., & Anestis, M.D. (2018). Openness to firearm storage safety as a suicide prevention tool among those exposed to suicide: The role of perceived closeness to the suicide decedent. Psychiatry Research, 269, 437-443.
Houtsma, C., Butterworth, S.E., & Anestis, M.D. (2018). Firearm suicide: Pathways to risk and methods of prevention. Current Opinion in Psychology, 22, 7-11.
Butterworth, S.E., Daruwala, S.E., & Anestis, M.D. (2018). Firearm storage and shooting experience: Factors relevant to the practical capability for suicide. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 102, 52-56.
Anestis, M.D., Selby, E.A., & Butterworth, S.E. (2017). Rising longitudinal trajectories in state level suicide rates: The role of firearm suicide rates and firearm legislation. Preventive Medicine, 100, 159-166.
Anestis, M.D., Khazem, L.R., & Anestis, J.C. (2017). Differentiating suicide decedents who died using firearms from those who died using other methods. Psychiatry Research, 252, 23-28.
Anestis, M.D., Anestis, J.C., & Butterworth, S.E. (2017). Differing perspectives on analyzing data related to firearms and suicide. American Journal of Public Health. Advance online publication.
Anestis, M.D., & Capron, D.W. (2016). The associations between state veteran population rates, handgun legislation, and statewide suicide rates. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 74, 30-34.
Anestis, M.D. (2016). Prior suicide attempts are less common in suicide decedents who died by firearms relative to those who died by other means. Journal of Affective Disorders, 189, 106-109.
Anestis, M.D., & Anestis, J.C. (2015). Suicide rates and statewide laws regulating access and exposure to handguns. American Journal of Public Health, 105, 2049-2058.
Houtsma, C., & Anestis, M.D. (2017). Practical capability: The impact of handgun ownership among previous suicide attempters. Psychiatry Research, 258, 88-92.
Anestis, M.D., Khazem, L.R., Law, K.C., Houtsma, C., LeTard, R., Moberg, F., & Martin, R. (2015). The association between state laws regulating handgun ownership and suicide rates. American Journal of Public Health, 105. 2059-2067.
Khazem, L.R., Houtsma, C., Gratz, K.L., Tull, M.T., Green, B.A., & Anestis, M.D. (2016). Firearms matter: The moderating role of firearm storage in the association between current suicidal ideation and likelihood of future suicide attempts among United States military personnel. Military Psychology, 28, 25-33.
Stanley, I.H., Hom, M.A., Rogers, M.L., Anestis, M.D., & Joiner, T.E. (in press). Discussing firearm ownership and access as part of suicide risk assessment and prevention: "Means safety" versus "means restriction." Archives of Suicide Research.
Testing Assumptions about Suicide
Anestis, M.D., & Capron, D.W. (2016). An investigation of persistence through pain and distress as an amplifier of the relationship between suicidal ideation and suicidal behavior. Journal of Affective Disorders, 196, 78-82.
Anestis, M.D., Law, K.C., Jin, H., Houtsma, C., Khazem, L.R., & Assavedo, B.L. (2017). Treating the capability for suicide: A vital and understudied frontier in suicide prevention. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Advance Online Publication.
Anestis, M.D., Soberay, K.A., Gutierrez, P.M., Hernandez, T.D., & Joiner, T.E. (2014). Reconsidering the link between impulsivity and suicidal behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 18, 366-386.
Anestis, M.D., Joiner, T.E., Hanson, J.E., & Gutierrez, P.M. (2014). The modal suicide decedent did not consume alcohol just prior to the time of death: An analysis with implications for understanding suicidal behavior. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 123, 835-840.
Anestis, M.D., Joiner, T.E., Hanson, J.E., & Gutierrez, P.M. (2015). Response to commentary on the modal suicide decedent did not consume alcohol just prior to the time of death: An analysis with implications for understanding suicidal behavior. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 124, 460-461.
Anestis, M.D., Bryan, C.J., May, A.M., Law, K.C., Hagan, C.R., Bryan, A.O., Chu, C., Michaels, M.S., Selby, E.A., Klonsky, E.D., & Joiner, T.E. (2015). Dangerous words? An experimental investigation of the impact of detailed reporting about suicide on subsequent risk. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 71, 1031-1041.
Khazem, L.R., & Anestis, M.D. (in press). Thinking or doing? An examination of well-established suicide risk factors within the ideation-to-action framework. Psychiatry Research.
Law, K.C., Khazem, L.R., & Anestis, M.D. (2015). The role of emotion dysregulation in suicide as considered through the ideation to action framework. Current Opinion in Psychology, 3, 30-35.
Anestis, M.D., Kleiman, E.M., Lavender, J.M., Tull, M.T., & Gratz, K.L. (2014). The pursuit of death versus escape from negative affect: An examination of the nature of the relationship between emotion dysregulation and both suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self-injury. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 55, 1820-1830.
Anestis, M.D., Bagge, C.L., Tull, M.T., & Joiner, T.E. (2011). Clarifying the role of emotion dysregulation in the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior in an undergraduate sample. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 45, 603-611.
Military Suicide
Anestis, M.D., Mohn, R.S., Dorminey, J.W., & Green, B.A. (2018). Detecting underreporting of suicidal ideation among United States military personnel. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Advance Online Publication.
Martin, R.L., Bauer, B.W., Ramsey, K.L., Green, B.A., Capron, D.W., & Anestis, M.D. (2018). How distress tolerance mediates the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder and the interpersonal theory of suicide constructs in a US military sample. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Advance Online Publication.
Martin, R.L., Assavedo, B.L., Bryan, A.O., Green, B.A., Capron, D.W., Rudd, M.D., Bryan, C.J. & Anestis, M.D. (2018). The relationship between post-battle experiences and thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness in three United States military samples. Archives of Suicide Research, 21, 1-18.
Butterworth, S.E., Green, B.A., & Anestis, M.D. (2017). The association between specific combat experiences and aspects of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 78, 9-18. doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2017.06.003
Assavedo, B.L., Green, B.A., & Anestis, M.D. (2017). Military personnel compared to multiple suicide attempters: Interpersonal theory of suicide constructs. Death Studies. Advance Online Publication. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2017.1334013
Anestis, M.D., Khazem, L.R., Mohn, R.S., & Green, B.A. (2015). Testing the main hypotheses of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior in a large diverse sample of United States military personnel. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 60, 78-85.
Anestis, M.D., & Green, B.A. (2015). The effect of varying levels of confidentiality on disclosure of suicidal thoughts in a sample of United States National Guard personnel. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 71, 1023-1030.
Khazem, L.R., Law, K.C., Green, B.A., & Anestis, M.D. (2015). Examining the relationship between coping strategies and suicidal desire in a sample of United States military personnel. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 57, 2-9.
Anestis, M.D., & Bryan, C.J. (2013). Means and capacity for suicidal behavior: A comparison of the ratio of suicide attempts and deaths by suicide in the US military and general population. Journal of Affective Disorders, 148, 42-47.
Bryan, C.J., & Anestis, M.D. (2011). Re-experiencing symptoms and the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior among deployed service members evaluated for traumatic brain injury. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 67, 856-864.
Bryan, C.J., Morrow, C.E., Anestis, M.D., & Joiner, T.E. (2010). A preliminary test of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior in a military sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 47-50.
Selby, E.A., Anestis, M.D., Bender, T.W., Riberio, J.D., Nock, M.K., Rudd, M.D., Bryan, C.J., Lim, I.C., Baker, M.T. Gutierrez, P.M., & Joiner, T.E. (2010). Overcoming the fear of lethal self-injury: Evaluating suicide in the military through the lens of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide. Clinical Psychology Review, 30, 298-307.