感知到的社会支持调节了心理健康症状和当前自杀念头之间的关系
Claire A Hoffmire1, Meghan L Donovan1, Arthur T Ryan1
1Veterans Health Administration, Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention.
Psychological services
|February 15, 2024
概括
感知到的社会支持提供了对自杀念头 (SI) 的保护,特别是对那些精神健康 (MH) 症状较少的人来说. 这种保护作用对于症状严重程度较低的人来说是最明显的.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 心理健康研究 心理健康研究
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 识别自杀念头 (SI) 的保护因素对于预防至关重要.
- 感知到的社会支持与积极的心理结果有关.
- 以前关于社会支持作为SI调节者的研究有局限性.
研究的目的:
- 检查感知到的社会支持是否会缓和退伍军人和非退伍军人的心理健康 (MH) 症状和SI之间的联系.
- 确定这种缓解效应是否因性别和退伍军人身份而异.
- 评估缓解效应是否因社会支持来源 (伴侣,朋友,家人) 而有所不同.
主要方法:
- 利用了比较健康评估访谈研究研究的数据.
- 分析了感知到的社会支持对MH症状 (创伤后压力,焦虑,酒精使用,抑郁) 和SI的缓和作用.
- 在人口群体 (性别,退伍军人身份) 和支持来源之间比较影响.
主要成果:
- 感知到的社会支持对具有较低MH症状水平 (≤第25百分位) 的个人来说,对SI更有保护作用.
- 调查结果在各组和支持类型中总体上是一致的.
- 仅在老兵男性中发现了对酒精使用和SI的显著缓解效应.
结论:
- 症状严重程度较低的MH个体可能会从加强感知到的社会支持的干预措施中获益更多.
- 针对个体需求量身定制保护因素对于有效的SI干预至关重要.
- 需要进一步的研究,以使保护因素与特定的个人资料相匹配.
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