Social problem-solving deficits and hopelessness, depression, and suicidal risk in college students and psychiatric inpatients
✍ Scribed by Thomas J. D'Zurilla; Edward C. Chang; Edgar J. Nottingham IV; Lino Faccini
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 114 KB
- Volume
- 54
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
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 problemsolving 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.