Childhood Maltreatment and College Students' Current Suicidal Ideation: A Test of the Hopelessness Theory

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior - Tập 31 Số 4 - Trang 405-415 - 2001
Brandon E. Gibb1, Lauren B. Alloy1, Lyn Y. Abramson2, Donna Rose2, Wayne G. Whitehouse2, Michael E. Hogan1
1are with Temple University.
2are with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This project was completed by the first author in partial fulfillment of the masters of arts degree, and was supported by National Institute of Mental Health Grants MH 48216 to Lauren B. Alloy and MH 43866 to Lyn Y. Abramson. The authors would like to thank Dr. Alan Sockloff for his statistical consultation. We would also like to thank the following individuals (in alphabetical order) for serving as interviewers and/or trainers for this portion of the CVD project: Michelle Armstrong, Dena Steinberg Berrebi, Monica Calkins, Mark Cenite, Judith Cronholm, Patricia Donovan, Kimberly Eberbach, Teresa Gannon, Nancy Just, Christine Klitz, Alan Lipman, Catherine Panzarella, Pamela Shapiro, Janet Shriberg, Nancy Tashman, and Aaron Torrance.

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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.

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Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

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