scholarly journals Interpersonal Risk Factors for Suicide in Cocaine Dependence: Association with Self‐Esteem, Personality Traits, and Childhood Abuse

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 867-883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Zhornitsky ◽  
Thang M. Le ◽  
Isha Dhingra ◽  
Brendan D. Adkinson ◽  
Stephane Potvin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Cocaine Dependence ◽  
Interpersonal Risk ◽  
Risk Factors For Suicide

Aging with Honor: Examining Ambivalent Ageism and Interpersonal Risk-Factors for Suicide as Explanations for the Honor-Suicide Link

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 721-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarrod E. Bock ◽  
Ryan P. Brown ◽  
Kevin Green
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
White Men ◽  
Interpersonal Theory ◽  
Interpersonal Theory Of Suicide ◽  
Older Adulthood ◽  
Explanatory Factors ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Interpersonal Risk ◽  
Attitudes Toward Suicide ◽  
Risk Factors For Suicide

Introduction: Prior research has demonstrated that rates of suicide are greater in more honor-oriented regions of the U.S. (particularly among White men), and that this difference in suicide rates becomes greater as men enter older adulthood. Research into the honor-suicide link has suggested explanatory factors that coincide with the interpersonal theory of suicide, such as untreated depression, heightened risk-taking, and the use of firearms in suicide. Method: The present study exam-ined ambivalent ageism, permissive attitudes toward suicide, and interpersonal risk factors for suicide as explanations for the honor-suicide link among a sample of 201 American men in midlife and above. Results: After controlling for participant age and religiosity, participants with greater endorsement of honor ideology but lower levels of honor fulfillment expressed heightened levels of thwarted belongingness—an established interpersonal risk factor for suicide. Additionally, lower levels of honor fulfillment predicted greater anxiety about aging, greater perceived burdensomeness, and more positive implicit attitudes toward youth. Conversely, greater levels of honor fulfillment also predicted more positive attitudes toward older adults. Discussion: Our results extend previous research on the honor-suicide relationship by demonstrating the utility of integrating the inter-personal theory of suicide with research on cultures of honor.

The Impact of the 2009 Red River Flood on Interpersonal Risk Factors for Suicide

Crisis ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn H. Gordon ◽  
Konrad Bresin ◽  
Joseph Dombeck ◽  
Clay Routledge ◽  
Joseph A. Wonderlich
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Red River ◽  
River Flood ◽  
Interpersonal Risk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Risk Factors For Suicide ◽  
Red River Flood

Background: Natural disasters are frequently associated with increases in risk factors for suicide, yet research indicates that suicide rates tend to stay the same or decrease in the wake of disasters (e.g., Krug et al., 1999 ). Aims: The present research sought to shed light on this counterintuitive phenomenon by testing hypotheses derived from Joiner’s (2005 ) interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior, which proposes that the desire to die by suicide is the result of feeling like one does not belong and feeling like one is a burden on others. During natural disasters, community members often pull together in volunteering efforts, and it was predicted that such behaviors would boost feelings of belonging and reduce feelings that one is a burden. Methods: The present study tested these predictions in a sample of 210 undergraduate students in Fargo, North Dakota, following the 2009 Red River Flood. Results: Consistent with prediction, greater amounts of time spent volunteering in flood efforts were associated with increased feelings of belongingness and decreased feelings of burdensomeness. Conclusions: The findings in the current study are consistent with the notion that communities pulling together during a natural disaster can reduce interpersonal risk factors associated with the desire for suicide.

scholarly journals Incremental Role of Pathological Personality Traits in the Prediction of Suicidal Ideation in General and Psychiatric Inpatient Sample

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-363
Author(s):  
Viktorija Perepjolkina ◽  
Jeļena Ļubenko ◽  
Jeļena Koļesņikova ◽  
Kristīne Mārtinsone ◽  
Ainārs Stepens
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Psychiatric Inpatient ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Support Interaction ◽  
Pathological Personality Traits

Abstract The aim of this study was to evaluate the utility of the pathological personality traits in predicting suicidal ideation, especially in combination with other risk factors, such as the level of depression, prior attempts of suicide, low self-esteem, low level of perceived social support and self-esteem-by-social support interaction, both in general and in psychiatric inpatient samples. Data were analysed within two samples: non-clinical general sample (n = 461) and psychiatric inpatient sample (n = 131). Latvian Clinical Personality Inventory (LCPI) was used as the instrument for data collection. LCPI is a comprehensive multi-scale multi-item inventory, which consists of nine clinical scales (including Depression Symptom Scale), 33 pathological personality scales, five functioning scales, and five additional scales, including a Suicidal Ideation Scale, Low Self-esteem Scale and Lack of Perceived Social Support Scale. Results of the hierarchical regression analysis showed that several facet-level pathological personality traits (depressivity, self-harm, dissociation proneness, submissiveness, and suspiciousness) added significant incremental variance to the prediction of suicidal ideation above and beyond the well-known main risk factors of suicidal ideation, such as depression and prior suicide attempt. This effect remained stable even after taking into account additional interpersonal risk factors, such as low self-esteem, low level of perceived social support and self-esteem-by-perceived social support interaction. The incremental effect of personality traits was medium in the psychiatric inpatient sample and small in the general sample. Findings of the study may assist in early screening for persons with suicide risk and for developing prevention programmes in different settings.

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