Spiritual Well-Being and Suicidal Ideation Among College Students

Abstract

This investigation highlighted existential well-being as an important factor associated with lower levels of suicidal ideation among college students. Findings from this study focusing on the association between spiritual well-being and suicidality may prove especially beneficial to suicide prevention efforts.

Assessment of suicidal and self-injurious behaviours among patients with depression

“…In a 5-year follow-up study of repeaters of suicidal attempts, it was reported that high anxiety, severe depression, psychiatric symptoms and young females with low education were significantly associated with repetition of attempted suicide [12]. Similarly, the identified protective factors against suicide and self-injurious behaviour are numerous, including treatment of underlying mental disorders, alcohol and drug abuse, physical disorders and others [13][14][15][16][17][18].…”

Correlation between Self-esteem, Death Anxiety, and Spiritual Wellbeing in Korean University Students

“…Death severs people from the realization of their dreams, leading to death anxiety. University students experience the severance of relationships through the death of parents or friends; it is then that they perceive the problem of their own life and death, and when they take control over their lives and obtain savoir-vivre [2]. Death anxiety is increased in students with little experience of death because their values are not established.…”

“…Those who are spiritually well can find meaning and goals in life in their current surroundings as well as future meaning and their ultimate goals. They show a positive attitude even in negative circumstances or environments, and can accelerate inner healing and peace by improving and revitalizing their inner defense abilities [1,2]. Accordingly, implementing a spiritual education or consultation program aimed at increasing university students' spiritual wellbeing may help them achieve the tasks they face and live healthy lives.…”

“…University students today have a considerably lower capacity to manage frustration, sadness, and pain than those in the past. They tend toward emotional vulnerability to even small frustrations, which drives them toward suicidal ideation as an escape from complicated social situations and impulsive suicide attempts [2,3]. The rate of suicide in Korea is the highest among the OECD countries.…”

"Hell... unless they repent of their sins and turn to God": The problem of Bible translation and the potential impacts of Israel Folau's comments on Maori and Pasifika minority sexualities

“…2 With regard to religion, in general, religiosity has been found to be protective in terms of mental health (Wong, Rew & Slaikeu, 2006), with lower levels of depression in adolescents (Cotton, Larkin, Hoopes, Cromer & Rosenthal, 2005), and young adults (Taliaferro, Rienzo, Pigg, Miller & Dodd, 2009), and lower rates of suicidality in adolescents (Rew, Thomas, Horner, Resnick & Beuhring, 2001) and young adults (Taliaferro, Rienzo, Pigg, Miller & Dodd, 2009). However, there are strong connections between religiosity and negative views of homosexuality (Rowatt, LaBouff, Johnson, Froese & Tsang, 2009), and higher rates of internalised homophobia (Barnes & Meyer, 2012;Kralovec, Fartacek, Fartacek & Plöderl, 2014;Shilo & Savaya, 2012), and internalised homophobia is associated with poor mental health outcomes (Kralovec et al, 2014;Shilo et al, 2012).…”