Protective Factors

Bell, Charles; Pham, Andy V.; Carlson, John S.

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_2277

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“…Among studies of suicide, many traditional theories focused on the risk factors, which refer to the influencing factors that encourage the occurrence of a negative result [32], such as psychache [33], burdensomeness, and social alienation [34]. Klonsky and May [27] proposed a three-step theory of suicide, which incorporates connectedness as a protective factor against the escalation of suicidal ideation.…”

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Suicide Attempts and Perceived Social Support among Chinese Drug Users: The Mediating Role of Self-Esteem and Depression

Deng

Liu

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Suicidal behavior is a severe problem among drug users. This study examines influential factors related to suicide attempts and analyzes possible mediators of the relationship between perceived social support and suicide attempts amongst Chinese drug users under compulsory institutional drug treatment. Taking perceived social support as the independent variable, we found that the relationship between suicide attempts and perceived social support is mediated by self-esteem as a protective factor and depression as a risk factor. Path analysis shows that self-esteem contributes relatively more to the indirect effects than depression does, accounting for 31.1% and 24.2% of the total effect, respectively. Generally speaking, the findings of this study point to an urgent need for addressing suicide attempts among Chinese drug users while treating self-esteem as the protective factor that deserves as substantial attention as depression receives.

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