Suicidal Behavior among African American College Students: A Preliminary Study
Suicidal Behavior among African American College Students: A Preliminary Study
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非裔美国大学生的自杀行为：初步研究
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1994
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Steven Williams
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S. Molock;Regina M. Kimbrough;M. Lacy;Karla P. McClure;Steven Williams
这项初步研究调查了233名非裔美国大学生的自杀行为，他们就读于一所历史悠久的黑人大学。自杀包括自杀意念和自杀行为。自杀意念包括经常与自杀行为相关的想法和感觉(例如，制定自杀计划，对死亡的念头，等等)。自杀行为包括故意试图结束自己的生命。结果表明，非裔美国大学生的自杀倾向与美国白人大学生的自杀倾向相似，但两个关键领域不同：非裔美国大学生的自杀意念比文献中关于美国白人大学生的自杀意念要少，非裔美国大学生在自杀未遂时使用酒精或非法药物的人数比白人大学生少。这项研究还发现了初步证据，表明在美国白人样本中通常用于测量自杀及其相关性的测量方法(例如，贝克抑郁问卷和自杀意念量表)似乎也在非裔美国人样本中可靠地测量这些现象。讨论了支持性黑人机构在改善与自杀行为相关的压力方面的作用，以及关于测量非裔美国大学生的抑郁、自杀意念和自杀企图的方法论问题。
This preliminary study examined suicidality in 233 African American college students who attended a historically Black college. Suicidality involves both suicidal ideation and suicidal behaviors. Suicidal ideation includes the thoughts andfeelings that are often associated with suicidal behavior (e.g., developing a suicide plan, preoccupation with thoughts of death, etc.). Suicidal behavior involves the deliberate attempt to take one's life. The results indicate that the suicidality among African American college students is similar to the suicidality manifested in White American college students with the exception of two critical areas: African American college students report less suicidal ideation than the literature reports on White American college students, andfewerAfrican American than White college students use alcohol or illicit drugs while making a suicide attempt. This study also found preliminary evidence that suggests that the measures typically used to measure suicide and its correlates in White American samples (e.g., Beck Depression Inventory and the Scale for Suicidal Ideation) appear to reliably measure these phenomena in an African American sample as well. Issues pertaining to the role of the supportive Black institution in ameliorating the stress associated with suicidal behavior and methodological concerns regarding the measurement of depression, suicidal ideation, and suicidal attempts in African American college students are discussed.