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[Study on the related factors of suicidal ideation in college undergraduates]
Hong-sheng Gao1, Cheng-yi Qu, Mao-hua Miao
1Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan 030001, China.
Objective:
To evaluate psychosocial factors and patterns on suicidal ideation of the undergraduates in Shanxi province.
Methods:
Four thousand eight hundred and eighty-two undergraduates in Shanxi province were investigated with multistage stratified random clustered samples. Factors associated with suicidal ideation were analyzed with logistic regression and Path analysis by scores of Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSSI), Suicide Attitude Questionnaire (QSA), Adolescent Self-Rate Life Events Check List (ASLEC), DSQ, Social Support Rating Scale, SCL-90, Simple Coping Modes Questionnaire and EPQ.
Results:
Tendency of psychological disorder was the major factor. Negative life events did not directly affect suicidal ideation, but personality did directly or indirectly affect suicidal ideation through coping and defensive response.
Conclusions:
Personality played a stabilized fundamental role while life events were minor but "triggering" agents. Mental disturbance disposition seemed to be the principal factor related to suicidal ideation. Above three factors were intergraded and resulted in suicidal ideation in chorus.
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