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Social problem‐solving deficits and hopelessness, depression, and suicidal risk in college students and psychiatric inpatients
Author(s) -
D'Zurilla Thomas J.,
Chang Edward C.,
Nottingham Edgar J.,
Faccini Lino
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199812)54:8<1091::aid-jclp9>3.0.co;2-j
Subject(s) - psychology , depression (economics) , psychiatry , clinical psychology , economics , macroeconomics
The Social Problem‐Solving Inventory‐Revised was used to examine the relations between problem‐solving abilities and hopelessness, depression, and suicidal risk in three different samples: undergraduate college students, general psychiatric inpatients, and suicidal psychiatric inpatients. A similar pattern of results was found in both college students and psychiatric patients: a negative problem orientation was most highly correlated with all three criterion variables, followed by either a positive problem orientation or an avoidance problem‐solving style. Rational problem‐solving skills emerged as an important predictor variable in the suicidal psychiatric sample. Support was found for a prediction model of suicidal risk that includes problem‐solving deficits and hopelessness, with partial support being found for including depression in the model as well. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 54: 1091–1107, 1998.