@article{ref1,
title="On loving thyself: exploring the association between self-compassion, self-reported suicidal behaviors, and implicit suicidality among college students",
journal="Journal of American college health",
year="2019",
author="Zeifman, Richard J. and Ip, Jennifer and Antony, Martin M. and Kuo, Janice R.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="<b>Objective:</b> Suicide is a major public health concern. It is unknown whether self-compassion is associated with suicide risk above and beyond suicide risk factors such as self-criticism, hopelessness, and depression severity. <b>Participants:</b> Participants were 130 ethnically diverse undergraduate college students. <b>Methods:</b> Participants completed self-report measures of self-compassion, self-criticism, hopelessness, depression severity, and suicidal behaviors, as well as an implicit measure of suicidality. <b>Results:</b> Self-compassion was significantly associated with self-reported suicidal behaviors, even when controlling for self-criticism, hopelessness, and depression severity. Self-compassion was not significantly associated with implicit suicidality. <b>Conclusions:</b> The findings suggest that self-compassion is uniquely associated with self-reported suicidal behaviors, but not implicit suicidality, and that self-compassion is a potentially important target in suicide risk interventions. Limitations and future research directions are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0744-8481",
doi="10.1080/07448481.2019.1679154",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2019.1679154"
}