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Background: Although approximately 79% of the world’s suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the limited research in these regions has primarily focused on the rates of suicide attempts (SA) and ideation among men and younger members of the population. Aim: This study investigated the associations between bodily pain, functional limitation, chronic health conditions, and suicidal ideation among older Ghanaian women with a positive screen for depression. Methods: Data was obtained from the World Health Organization’s Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) Ghana Wave 1, a nationally representative sample. Based on the interpersonal theory of suicide, we used logistic regression analysis to investigate the associations between the variables. Results: Functional limitation, bodily pain, hopelessness, and hypertension were significantly associated with a higher risk of suicidal ideation after accounting for sociodemographic and other confounding factors. Conclusions: Early interventions designed to decrease hopelessness, hypertension, and functional limitations may lead to reduced suicide ideation among older Ghanaian women who screen positive for depression.

Objective: Prior intent to treat evaluation of the Fathering Through Change (FTC) online interactive behavioral parent training program demonstrated a causal link from the FTC intervention to reductions in pre-post changes in fathers' coercive parenting and, in turn, reductions in pre-post changes in child behavioral problems (a moderate indirect effect size d = .30). The present study expands on this work by investigating mediational mechanisms. Method: The present study employed a sample of 426 recently divorced or separated fathers who were each randomly assigned to either the FTC program or to the wait-list control. We tested a set of intent-to-treat serial mediation hypotheses positing that effects of the FTC on fathers' reductions in coercive parenting would be mediated through reductions in emotion regulation problems. To be included in this intervention, fathers had to have been separated or divorced within the past 2 years and also had to have children between the ages of 4 and 12. Results: The intervention obtained a significant total and set of unique pathways linking the FTC intervention to improved child adjustment. This supports a causal experimental link to reduced child behavior problems (d = .39). Emotion regulation did not fully mediate the intervention effect on parenting. Conclusions: Emotion regulation added both direct and indirect experimental explained variance over and above parenting alone. Clinical implications are discussed for the application of online training through pediatric settings. Implications for Impact StatementFathers are underrepresented in the literature on parenting. This study focused on an online parenting program for divorced fathers of children ages 4 to 12. It found support for a cascade from receiving the parenting program to reduction in fathers' emotion regulation problems, to reduction in coercive parenting, and finally to lowered child adjustment concerns. In addition to providing more knowledge about how parenting programs affect fathers and their children, this study emphasizes the importance of including fathers in parenting interventions.

Although a large body of research identifies drive for muscularity as a central facet of men’s body image concerns, African American men are routinely omitted from investigations of this construct. Guided by the threatened masculinity hypothesis, we conceptualize experiences of everyday discrimination as a potential threat to masculinity that may promote drive for muscularity among African American men. A strong sense of ethnic identity, however, may buffer the negative effects of this threat. Participants were a nationally diverse sample of 261 18–30- year-old African American men (M age = 23.72, SD = 3.47). Participants completed an online survey containing the Everyday Discrimination Scale (EDS), the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM), the Drive for Muscularity Scale (DMS), and a demographic questionnaire. Pearson correlations and hierarchical linear regression analyses were used to examine direct and moderated associations among our study variables. Discrimination was significantly and positively related to drive for muscularity. Ethnic identity did not significantly moderate this association, indicating that it did not function as a protective factor, as hypothesized. Although prospective data are needed to determine whether discrimination is a risk factor for drive for muscularity, results from the current data highlight the diversity of negative psychological factors associated with discriminatory experiences among young African American men.

Body image concerns are pervasive within university environments. In this study, we suggest that high rates of body image concerns among undergraduate women may be due, in part, to a local dominance effect of appearance comparisons. That is, undergraduate women may increasingly make upward social comparisons with a predominantly thin and fit student population, rather than downward or lateral social comparisons with the size-diverse global population. The present research tested for and found evidence of this local dominance effect in Study 1 (N = 50), and tested a construal level manipulation as a moderating factor in Study 2 (N = 421).Results suggest that a concrete mindset leads to a local dominance effect, such that self-evaluations are influenced more by local comparisons than global; however, an