- Title
- Problem Solving Appraisal, Hopeless and Coping Resources: A Test of a Suicide Ideation Model.
- Creator
- Waring, John Clifton
- Relation
- University of Newcastle Research Higher Degree Thesis
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 1995
- Description
- Schotte and Clum (1982,1987) proposed a model of suicide ideation in which cognitive rigidity (in the presenc eof negative life stress) causes a reduction in problem solving capacity and subsequently leads to hopelessness, which in turn increases the risk for suicide ideation. The aim of the current study was to attempt to improve the model by the addition of a coping variable. The model was tested using a sample 05 85 undergraduate psychology students. the subjects were requested to complete a total of five questionnaires on a once only basis. A new model was developed in which a low level of problem solving confidence and a failure to express emotions combines with the presence of negative life stress to lead to a state of hopelessness, which in turn increases the risk of suicideideation. Results of the study are discussed in terms of the need for a more complex model of suicide ideation which more fully accounts for the effects of different coping strategies on the development of feelings of hopelessness.
- Description
- Masters Thesis
- Subject
- suicide ideation; hoplessness; problem solving; coping strategies
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24933
- Identifier
- uon:705
- Rights
- http://www.newcastle.edu.au/copyright.html, Copyright 1995 John Clifton Waring
- Language
- eng
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