Associations between depression, anxiety, stress, hopelessness, subjective well-being, coping styles and suicide in Chinese university students
Suicide is a major public health concern worldwide. This study aimed to predict the suicidal behavior of Chinese university students by studying psychological measures such as hopelessness, orientation to happiness, meaning in life, depression, anxiety, stress, and coping styles. In November 2016, a...
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| author | Abu Talib, Mansor Huen, Jenny Yu, Peng Peng Yuan, Lu Wang, Dong Fang Ping, Fan Lester, David Jia, Cun Xian Lew, Bob |
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| description | Suicide is a major public health concern worldwide. This study aimed to predict the suicidal behavior of Chinese university students by studying psychological measures such as hopelessness, orientation to happiness, meaning in life, depression, anxiety, stress, and coping styles. In November 2016, a stratified-clustered-random sampling approach was utilized to select subjects from two large public medical-related universities in Shandong province, China. This sample consisted of 2,074 undergraduate students (706 males, 1,368 females; mean age = 19.79±1.39 years). The students' major risk factors for suicide were depression, anxiety, stress, and hopelessness, and the students' minor risk factors included orientation to happiness and coping styles (including self-distraction, self-blame and substance use). Notably, the presence of meaning in life had a positive effect on preventing suicide and acted as a protective factor, which suggests that it is important to identify risk factors as well as protective factors relevant to the target population group in order to increase the effectiveness of counseling and suicide prevention programs. |
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| spelling | upm-807622020-11-06T19:14:39Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/80762/ Associations between depression, anxiety, stress, hopelessness, subjective well-being, coping styles and suicide in Chinese university students Abu Talib, Mansor Huen, Jenny Yu, Peng Peng Yuan, Lu Wang, Dong Fang Ping, Fan Lester, David Jia, Cun Xian Lew, Bob Suicide is a major public health concern worldwide. This study aimed to predict the suicidal behavior of Chinese university students by studying psychological measures such as hopelessness, orientation to happiness, meaning in life, depression, anxiety, stress, and coping styles. In November 2016, a stratified-clustered-random sampling approach was utilized to select subjects from two large public medical-related universities in Shandong province, China. This sample consisted of 2,074 undergraduate students (706 males, 1,368 females; mean age = 19.79±1.39 years). The students' major risk factors for suicide were depression, anxiety, stress, and hopelessness, and the students' minor risk factors included orientation to happiness and coping styles (including self-distraction, self-blame and substance use). Notably, the presence of meaning in life had a positive effect on preventing suicide and acted as a protective factor, which suggests that it is important to identify risk factors as well as protective factors relevant to the target population group in order to increase the effectiveness of counseling and suicide prevention programs. Public Library of Science 2019 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/80762/1/STRESS.pdf Abu Talib, Mansor and Huen, Jenny and Yu, Peng Peng and Yuan, Lu and Wang, Dong Fang and Ping, Fan and Lester, David and Jia, Cun Xian and Lew, Bob (2019) Associations between depression, anxiety, stress, hopelessness, subjective well-being, coping styles and suicide in Chinese university students. PLoS One, 14 (7). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1932-6203 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31260454/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0217372 |
| spellingShingle | Abu Talib, Mansor Huen, Jenny Yu, Peng Peng Yuan, Lu Wang, Dong Fang Ping, Fan Lester, David Jia, Cun Xian Lew, Bob Associations between depression, anxiety, stress, hopelessness, subjective well-being, coping styles and suicide in Chinese university students |
| title | Associations between depression, anxiety, stress, hopelessness, subjective well-being, coping styles and suicide in Chinese university students |
| title_full | Associations between depression, anxiety, stress, hopelessness, subjective well-being, coping styles and suicide in Chinese university students |
| title_fullStr | Associations between depression, anxiety, stress, hopelessness, subjective well-being, coping styles and suicide in Chinese university students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Associations between depression, anxiety, stress, hopelessness, subjective well-being, coping styles and suicide in Chinese university students |
| title_short | Associations between depression, anxiety, stress, hopelessness, subjective well-being, coping styles and suicide in Chinese university students |
| title_sort | associations between depression, anxiety, stress, hopelessness, subjective well-being, coping styles and suicide in chinese university students |
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