Resilience to suicidal behavior in young adults: a cross-sectional study
Abstract Despite decades of research on suicide risk factors in young people, there has been no significant improvement in our understanding of this phenomenon. This study adopts a positive deviance approach to identify individuals with suicide resilience and to describe their associated psychologic...
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| description | Abstract Despite decades of research on suicide risk factors in young people, there has been no significant improvement in our understanding of this phenomenon. This study adopts a positive deviance approach to identify individuals with suicide resilience and to describe their associated psychological and sociodemographic profiles. Australian young adults aged 18–25 years with suicidal thoughts (N = 557) completed an online survey covering sociodemographic, mental health status, emotion regulatory and suicide-related domains. Latent class analysis was used to identify the individuals with suicide resilience. The predictors of suicide resilience were assessed using logistic regression models. The results suggested that one in ten (n = 55) met the criteria for suicide resilience. Factors that had a significant association with suicide resilience included greater cognitive flexibility, greater self-efficacy in expressing positive affect, reduced use of digital technology and less self-harm and substance use as a response to emotional distress. This study identified the factors that may protect young adults with suicidal thoughts from progressing to suicide attempts. Suicide prevention programs might be optimised by shifting from a deficit-based to a strength-based approach through promoting cognitive flexibility, self-efficacy and reducing maladaptive coping. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c2fd82a5205741bdad3fae13d3728eb82022-12-22T03:39:45ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222022-07-0112111010.1038/s41598-022-15468-0Resilience to suicidal behavior in young adults: a cross-sectional studyJin Han0Iana Wong1Helen Christensen2Philip J. Batterham3Black Dog Institute, University of New South WalesBlack Dog Institute, University of New South WalesBlack Dog Institute, University of New South WalesCentre for Mental Health Research, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National UniversityAbstract Despite decades of research on suicide risk factors in young people, there has been no significant improvement in our understanding of this phenomenon. This study adopts a positive deviance approach to identify individuals with suicide resilience and to describe their associated psychological and sociodemographic profiles. Australian young adults aged 18–25 years with suicidal thoughts (N = 557) completed an online survey covering sociodemographic, mental health status, emotion regulatory and suicide-related domains. Latent class analysis was used to identify the individuals with suicide resilience. The predictors of suicide resilience were assessed using logistic regression models. The results suggested that one in ten (n = 55) met the criteria for suicide resilience. Factors that had a significant association with suicide resilience included greater cognitive flexibility, greater self-efficacy in expressing positive affect, reduced use of digital technology and less self-harm and substance use as a response to emotional distress. This study identified the factors that may protect young adults with suicidal thoughts from progressing to suicide attempts. Suicide prevention programs might be optimised by shifting from a deficit-based to a strength-based approach through promoting cognitive flexibility, self-efficacy and reducing maladaptive coping.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15468-0 |
| spellingShingle | Jin Han Iana Wong Helen Christensen Philip J. Batterham Resilience to suicidal behavior in young adults: a cross-sectional study Scientific Reports |
| title | Resilience to suicidal behavior in young adults: a cross-sectional study |
| title_full | Resilience to suicidal behavior in young adults: a cross-sectional study |
| title_fullStr | Resilience to suicidal behavior in young adults: a cross-sectional study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Resilience to suicidal behavior in young adults: a cross-sectional study |
| title_short | Resilience to suicidal behavior in young adults: a cross-sectional study |
| title_sort | resilience to suicidal behavior in young adults a cross sectional study |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15468-0 |
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