Burdensomeness, Belongingness, and Suicidal Desire Among Hispanic/Latino Individuals: Examining the Effect of Ethnicity in the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide

Abstract

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Interpersonal Theory of Suicide Using a Familismo Values Lens among Emerging Mexican Descent Adults

“…Convergent and discriminant construct validity is supported in previous work by Van Orden et al (2012). While there are not many studies testing this scale on our target population, a study looked at the subscale of TB among a Latinx sample and found a coefficient alpha for TB of .91 (Acosta, 2015). Additionally, Lamis and Malone (2011) conducted a study on a college sample and obtained a coefficient alpha of .89 for PB and .92 for TB (Lamis & Malone, 2011).…”

Suicidal Ideation Among International Students: The Role of Cultural, Academic, and Interpersonal Factors

“…The interpersonal theory of suicide (Joiner, 2005; Van Orden et al, 2010, 2012) attempts to describe why people engage in suicidal behavior and has substantial support in explaining the etiology of suicidal ideation in different populations inside and outside the United States (Acosta et al, 2017; Chu et al, 2017; Suh et al, 2017). Thus, we considered it a useful theoretical framework for the present study.…”

Interpersonal suicide risk for Latino/a Americans: Investigating thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness, and cultural factors of relevance

“…Garcia & Lega, 1979;Rogler et al, 1991). Investigators examining college student suicide and the applicability of the IPTS to Latino/as have often failed to consider Latino/a students' sense of adherence to their culture or to the majority culture (Acosta et al, 2017). Gonzalez and Morrison (2016) asserted that researchers cannot presume the extent to which Latino/a college students identify with their indigenous culture or the majority culture simply because those students report a general identification with the Latino/a culture.…”

“…The few studies to consider culture based variables within the IPTS model (Acosta et al, 2017;Garza & Pettit, 2011), have failed to fully clarify differences in the extent to which an individual identifies with cultural values or experiences stress as related to their racial identity. As well, the experience of acculturative stress may mediate variance in suicidal risk explained by the theoretical constructs of thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness.…”

“…The authors found that Latino/a college students felt significantly less perceived burdensomeness and suicidal desire than their non-Latino/a peers, but did not significantly differ on feelings of thwarted belongingness. Moreover, the authors found moderating effects of ethnicity, but in the opposite direction than predicted.Acosta et al discovered that Latino/a ethnic status weakened the relationship between thwarted belongingness and suicidal desire, and between perceived burdensomeness and suicidal desire, as compared to non-Latino/a ethnic status.It is important to note thatAcosta et al (2017) did not directly measure the Latino/a college students' cultural identity or family connectedness. Rather, the authors built their study upon the assumption that self-identifying as Latino/a in a categorical demographic questionnaire would indicate level of adherence to Latino/a cultural values.…”