Childhood maltreatment and college students' current suicidal ideation: A test of the hopelessness theory
Childhood maltreatment and college students' current suicidal ideation: A test of the hopelessness theory
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DOI:
10.1521/suli.31.4.405.22042
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发表时间:
2001-12-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Hogan, ME
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作者:
Gibb, BE;Alloy, LB;Hogan, ME
Few studies have examined the relation between childhood maltreatment and adult suicidality within the context of a coherent theoretical model. The current study evaluates the ability of the hopelessness theory of depression's (Abramson, Metalsky, & Alloy, 1989) etiological chain to account for this relation in a sample of 297 undergraduates. Supporting the model, emotional, but not physical or sexual, maltreatment was uniquely related to average levels of suicidal ideation across a 2.5-year follow-up. Further, students' cognitive styles and average levels of hopelessness partially mediated this relation. Although these results cannot speak to causality, they support the developmental model evaluated.