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Metacognitive model of suicidality: a study of Iranian inpatients
Zahra Asgari1, Kaveh Qaderi Bagajan2, Matin Khanpayeh3
1Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
Background:
The metacognitive model of suicidality proposes that positive metacognitions about suicide activate suicide-specific rumination, which in turn leads to the activation of negative metacognitions about suicide and an escalating aggravation of suicidal ideation/behavior. Initial studies support the model assumptions. However, investigations in highly burdened inpatient samples as well as studies in non-Western samples are missing by now.
Methods:
A total of 209 Iranian psychiatric inpatients (56.9% female; age M = 31.14, SD = 11.04) took part in a cross-sectional assessment. Self-report measures to assess suicidal ideation/behavior, depressive symptoms, suicide-specific rumination, and metacognitions about suicide were used.
Results:
Positive metacognitions about suicide were associated with suicide-specific rumination. Suicide-specific rumination was associated with negative metacognitions about suicide. Suicidal thoughts were positively and positive metacognitions about suicide were negatively associated with lifetime suicide attempts.
Conclusion:
The results support assumptions of the metacognitive model of suicidality and underscore the importance of metacognitions about suicide and suicide-specific rumination in understanding the suicidal process.
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