The research question for this dissertation study was: Do behavioral outcomes identified in people who commit suicide exist in people who publicly exhibit productive behavioral outcomes and have not attempted suicide? More specifically, do selective affective and physiological behavioral outcomes identified in people who kill themselves exist is deans of nursing? The aim was to identify these outcomes in a sample of academic deans of baccalaureate schools of nursing. A survey was used. All computer-generated tables are included. (MSE)