title: The moderating effect of gender on the relationship between coping and suicide risk in a Portuguese community sample of adults.
abstract: Background and aims(s): The study evaluated the contribution of coping strategies, based on the Toulousiane conceptualization of coping, to the prediction of suicide risk and tested the moderating effect of gender, controlling for depressive symptoms.
  
  
  METHODS
  A two-time data collection design was used. A community sample of 195 adults (91 men and 104 women) ranging in age from 19 to 65 years and living in several Portuguese regions, mostly in Alentejo, participated in this research.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Gender, depressive symptoms, control, and withdrawal and conversion significantly predicted suicide risk and gender interacted with control, withdrawal and conversion, and social distraction in the prediction of suicide risk. Coping predicted suicide risk only for women.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results have important implications for assessment and intervention with suicide at-risk individuals. In particular,the evaluation and development of coping skills is indicated as a goal for therapists having suicide at-risk women as clients.
authors.affiliation: a Departamento de Psicologia , Escola de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Évora , Évora , Portugal and.
authors.forename: Rui C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Campos
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychology , Queen's University , Kingston , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Ronald R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Holden
authors.affiliation: a Departamento de Psicologia , Escola de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Évora , Évora , Portugal and.
authors.forename: Fátima
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.affiliation: a Departamento de Psicologia , Escola de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Évora , Évora , Portugal and.
authors.forename: Ana Rita
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.affiliation: a Departamento de Psicologia , Escola de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Évora , Évora , Portugal and.
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abreu
authors.affiliation: a Departamento de Psicologia , Escola de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Évora , Évora , Portugal and.
authors.forename: Natália
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fresca
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011174:Portugal; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult; D000092864:Suicide Prevention
keywords: community-based sample; coping; gender; interaction; suicide risk