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Life Stress, Social Support, and Problem‐Solving Skills Predictive of Depressive Symptoms, Hopelessness, and Suicide Ideation in an Asian Student Population: A Test of a Model
Author(s) -
Yang Bin,
Clum George A.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1994.tb00797.x
Subject(s) - social support , suicidal ideation , psychology , clinical psychology , path analysis (statistics) , social problem solving , population , cognition , suicide prevention , psychiatry , poison control , developmental psychology , medicine , psychotherapist , medical emergency , statistics , mathematics , environmental health
The present study tested both a stress‐problem‐solving model and a stress‐social support model in the etiology of depressive symptoms, hopelessness, and suicide ideation for a group of Asian international students in the United States. Problem‐solving skills and social support were hypothesized as two mediators between life stress and depressive symptoms, hopelessness, and suicide ideation. The results from a series of stepwise regression analyses and a path analysis support the hypotheses, indicating that these models generalized to a sample of Asian international students. The roles of social support and problem‐solving skills in depressive symptoms and hopelessness are discussed. The results also suggest that hopelessness may serve as a cognitive factor directly affecting depressive symptoms and indirectly affecting suicide ideation.