The Hopelessness Theory of Suicidality

Abramson, Lyn Y.; Alloy, Lauren B.; Hogan, Michael E.; Whitehouse, Wayne G.; Gibb, Brandon E.; Hankin, Benjamin L.; Cornette, M

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“…Individuals who suppress anger and harbour resentment may continue to feel victimised, helpless or hopeless, and may experience poor self-worth as a result of an anger-provoking event (Brody, Haaga, Kirk, & Solomon, 1999); in addition, these individuals may be unable to garner adequate social resources to assist in coping with anger-related experiences (Palfai & Hart, 1997). Such types of internal cognitive-emotional distress are well-established risk factors for suicidal behaviour (Abramson et al, 2002;Heikkinen, Aro, & Lonnqvist, 1994). Behavioural and physiological arousal is also activated in individuals responding with inward-directed anger, perhaps manifesting as agitation, irritability, and impulsivity (Hodapp, Bongard, & Heiligtag, 1992;Kerr & Schneider, 2008;Laude, Girard, Consoli, Mounier-Vehier, & Elghozi, 1997), characteristics associated with increased risk for self-harm and suicidal thoughts and attempts (Conner, Meldrum, Wieczorek, Duberstein, & Welte, 2004;Corruble, Damy, & Guelfi, 1999).…”

Section: Inward-angermentioning

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Forgiveness as a moderator of the association between anger expression and suicidal behaviour

Hirsch

Webb

Jeglic

2012

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

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Anger is often associated with poor physical and mental health, including suicidal behaviour. Anger expression is typically conceptualised as inward or outwarddirected, with each mode of expression having potentially different aetiologies and health manifestations. Individual characteristics such as religion or spirituality may buffer against the effects of anger. One such characteristic, forgiveness, is the voluntary process of changing ones' beliefs, behaviours, and emotions towards a transgressor from negative to positive. We examined forgiveness of self, forgiveness of others and feeling forgiven by God as moderators of the relationship between anger expression and suicidal behaviours in a sample of 372 ethnically diverse college students. In independent and full models, we found that forgiveness of self was a significant moderator of the association between inward and outward anger and suicidal behaviour. Interventions targeting anger via the promotion of forgiveness may be useful in the prevention of suicide ideation and attempts.

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Section: Inward-angermentioning

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Forgiveness as a moderator of the association between anger expression and suicidal behaviour

Hirsch

Webb

Jeglic

2012

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

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“…Hopelessness is a strong predictor of suicide-related ideations, attempts, and suicide in psychiatric and general population samples [109e111]. Hopelessness is also a potential mechanism by which life stresses or appraisals of stress lead to suicidal behaviors [112].…”

Section: Hopelessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

The insomnia and suicide link: toward an enhanced understanding of this relationship

Woznica

Carney

Kuo

et al. 2015

Sleep Medicine Reviews

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“…87,88 They are also associated with desires for hastened death 89 and suicidal ideation. 90 There has not, however, been much research to determine whether either of them are mediators of the rather well demonstrated inverse association between public practice measures of religiousness and suicide.…”

Section: Suicidementioning

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Religion, Senescence, and Mental Health: The End of Life Is Not the End of Hope

Ness¹

2002

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

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The authors review epidemiological and survey research relevant to the relationships between religiousness/spirituality and mental health in people at the end of life, with the end of helping psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals dealing with older Americans. They give special attention to well-being, religious coping, cognitive dysfunction, anxiety, depression, and suicide, and consider the extent to which hope is a mediator of the purported salutary effects of religiousness. Studies were selected from the comprehensive and systematic review of 20th-century scientific literature concerning religion and health. Authors also review current studies relevant to religion and end-of-life issues. Religious persons reported generally higher levels of well-being. The review also found fairly consistent inverse associations of religiousness with rates of depression and suicide. There was some negative association between religious participation and cognitive dysfunction, but the association with anxiety was inconsistent, with some studies showing a correlation between higher levels of religion and anxiety. Religion's effects on mental health are generally protective in direction but modest in strength.Public opinion polls suggest that the United States is a very religious nation. The 1999 Gallup Poll reports that 94% of Americans believe in God or a higher power; an almost equal proportion of the population says that religion is very or fairly important in their lives. 1 Less than a majority of these respondents report weekly attendance at religious services, but American rates of religious service attendance are still higher than for almost all other developed countries. 2 Most Americans believe that religion and health are intimately related. A 1996 Time/CNN poll conducted by Yankelovich Partners reports that 77% of respondents believe that God sometimes intervenes to cure people who have serious illnesses. 3 Furthermore, people act upon such beliefs. This same poll reports that 82% of Americans profess belief in the healing power of prayer. Also, research by Eisenberg and colleagues 4 shows that Americans spend billions of dollars annually on "alternative" medical therapies, and many of these therapies have spiritual meanings associated with them. 4,5

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The Hopelessness Theory of Suicidality

Cited by 100 publications

References 35 publications

Forgiveness as a moderator of the association between anger expression and suicidal behaviour

Forgiveness as a moderator of the association between anger expression and suicidal behaviour

The insomnia and suicide link: toward an enhanced understanding of this relationship

Religion, Senescence, and Mental Health: The End of Life Is Not the End of Hope

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