@article{ref1,
title="Desire for control and the integrated motivational-volitional model of suicidal behavior: results from a pilot investigation of adults in the United Kingdom",
journal="International journal of social psychiatry",
year="2021",
author="Saint-Cyr, Neielle and Gallagher, Brendan and Cramer, Robert J. and Rasmussen, Susan",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Suicidal behavior remains a pressing problem in the United Kingdom. Continued theory development is a critical step toward designing effective prevention. AIMS: The present study tested a novel element to suicide theory, the Desire for Control, for its direct and moderating roles within the Integrated Motivational-Volitional (IMV) Model of Suicidal Behavior. <br><br>METHOD: An online-administered cross-sectional suicide risk survey study (n = 116) was conducted among adults living in the United Kingdom. <br><br>RESULTS: Mean suicidal ideation scores were in the non-clinical range. DOC Leadership and Destiny Control were associated with good mental health. DOC Decision Avoidance was associated with poor mental health. DOC Decision Avoidance also acted as a motivational moderator in which the entrapment-suicidal thinking link was worse among those high in decisional avoidance. <br><br>CONCLUSION: DOC represents a novel, valuable addition to suicide theory and may inform suicide-specific psychotherapeutic intervention. Additional research is needed to full understand the role of DOC and its factor structures in the IMV.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0020-7640",
doi="10.1177/00207640211003606",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00207640211003606"
}