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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Psychiatry
  • Mental Health Research

Background:

  • Growing interest in resilience to suicidality.
  • Resilience defined as beliefs buffering individuals from suicidality.
  • Need for a framework to investigate resilience to suicidality.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce the buffering hypothesis for resilience to suicidality.
  • Investigate the existence and nature of psychological moderators of suicide risk.
  • Identify specific psychological constructs acting as moderators.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic review of 77 studies.
  • Examined psychological moderators of suicide risk.
  • Analyzed constructs potentially conferring resilience.

Main Results:

  • Strong support for the existence of psychological moderators.
  • Attributional style, perfectionism, agency, and hopelessness identified as moderators.
  • Resilience factors found to moderate the impact of risk on suicidality.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support the buffering hypothesis.
  • Psychological factors can confer resilience to suicidality.
  • Identifying moderators may improve suicide risk assessment and intervention development.