title: Suicide proneness in college students: relationships with gender, procrastination, and achievement motivation.
abstract: This study examined the relationships between 2 academic dispositions (i.e., procrastination and achievement motivation) and 2 indices of suicidal proneness in college women and men. The degree these 2 academic dispositions could predict unique variance in suicide proneness scores, above and beyond the influence of depression and self-esteem was also examined for each gender. Participants included 475 (336 women, 139 men) undergraduates from a southeastern university. For both genders, procrastination and achievement motivation were significantly correlated at the univarate level with the suicide proneness indices. However, for college women, but not men, procrastination significantly accounted for unique amounts of variance in both suicide indices above and beyond the influence of depression and self-esteem. Implications for suicide intervention efforts directed toward college women and men are offered.
authors: Department of Psychology, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA. jklibert@georgiasouthern.edu
authors: Jeffrey
authors: J
authors: Klibert
authors: Department of Psychology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, USA.
authors: Jennifer
authors: J
authors: Langhinrichsen-Rohling
authors: Department of Counseling Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA.
authors: Amy
authors: A
authors: Luna
authors: Department of Psychology, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA.
authors: Michelle
authors: M
authors: Robichaux
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017748:Time Management / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult; D000092864:Suicide Prevention