title: Psychological Resilience Provides No Independent Protection From Suicidal Risk.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Little is known about the role of resilience in the likelihood of suicidal ideation (SI) over time.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  We examined the association between resilience and SI in a young-adult cohort over 4 years. Our objectives were to determine whether resilience was associated with SI at follow-up or, conversely, whether SI was associated with lowered resilience at follow-up.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants were selected from the Personality and Total Health (PATH) Through Life Project from Canberra and Queanbeyan, Australia, aged 28-32 years at the first time point and 32-36 at the second. Multinomial, linear, and binary regression analyses explored the association between resilience and SI over two time points. Models were adjusted for suicidality risk factors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  While unadjusted analyses identified associations between resilience and SI, these effects were fully explained by the inclusion of other suicidality risk factors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Despite strong cross-sectional associations, resilience and SI appear to be unrelated in a longitudinal context, once risk/resilience factors are controlled for. As independent indicators of psychological well-being, suicidality and resilience are essential if current status is to be captured. However, the addition of other factors (e.g., support, mastery) makes this association tenuous. Consequently, resilience per se may not be protective of SI.
authors.affiliation: 1 School of Psychology, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia.|4 School of Management, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
authors.forename: Danica W Y
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: 2 School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
authors.forename: A Kate
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Fairweather-Schmidt
authors.affiliation: 3 Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.affiliation: 1 School of Psychology, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia.
authors.forename: Rachel M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.affiliation: 3 Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
authors.forename: Kaarin J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Anstey
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D012307:Risk Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: adults; longitudinal; resilience; suicidal ideation