Citation

Campos RC, Simões A, Costa S, Pio AS, Holden RR. Death Stud. 2019; ePub(ePub): 1-4.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Queen's University , Kingston , Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/07481187.2018.1554610

PMID

30912716

Abstract

In the present study, the first with a Western sample, we tested the relationship between three dimensions of psychological pain and suicidal ideation in a sample of 331 Portuguese college students. When controlling for the effect of depressive symptoms, the avoidance dimension, but not the cognitive and affective dimensions of psychological pain, made a significant contribution in predicting the three indicators of suicidal ideation. According to these results, psychotherapeutic action may focus either on enabling clients to tolerate mental pain or on providing more effective and adaptive strategies to cope with this pain.

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