The role of clinical and social cognitive variables in parasuicide

Rory C. O’Connor · Christopher J. Armitage · Lorna Gray

60 citations0/0 files storedBritish Journal of Clinical Psychology

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Suicide and Self-Harm Studies Behavioral Health and Interventions Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: The central aim of the present study was to investigate the extent to which social cognitive variables could mediate the effects of past self-harm behaviour and clinical variables on intentions to engage in deliberate self-harm (DSH) and suicidality in the next three months. In addition, we aimed to extend the application of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) beyond distal health outcomes to a behaviour that is proximal and extreme. Design and method. A prospective study design was employed. Ninety parasuicide patients admitted via accident and emergency to a general hospital completed measures of hopelessness, depression, anxiety, past self-harm behaviour, standard TPB and group identity measures within days of an overdose. Three months later, participants were asked to complete a measure of suicidal thinking and behaviour. RESULTS: There was clear evidence that the social cognitive variables were significant predictors of intention to engage in DSH and suicidality three months later. Depression was the only clinical variable which remained significant when all variables were entered into the final model to predict intentions. Attitudes, self-efficacy and intention mediated the clinical variables-suicidality relationship. CONCLUSIONS: The TPB is a useful framework for understanding suicidal behaviour. The results extend the application of the TPB beyond distal health outcomes to a behaviour that is both proximal and extreme. Future research should explore the implications for screening assessment and suicide prevention.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 60 citations exist upstream.

References

1991The theory of planned behavior 1983The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale 1999Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control 2000An Integrative Theory of Intergroup Conflict 1979The Social psychology of intergroup relations 2001Efficacy of the Theory of Planned Behaviour: A meta‐analytic review 2002The validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale 1974The measurement of pessimism: The Hopelessness Scale.

Cited by

2018The integrated motivational–volitional model of suicidal behaviour 2007Predicting short-term outcome in well-being following suicidal behaviour: The conjoint effects of social perfectionism and positive future thinking 2015Help-seeking, stigma and attitudes of people with and without a suicidal past. A comparison between a low and a high suicide rate country 2013The Willingness to Intervene Against Suicide Questionnaire

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.