Social problem-solving deficits and hopelessness, depression, and suicidal risk in college students and psychiatric inpatients.
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.
D'Zurilla
T J
TJ
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11794, USA.
Chang
E C
EC
Nottingham
E J
EJ
Faccini
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011340:Problem Solving; D012307:Risk Factors; D012649:Self Concept; D013334:Students; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*