@article{ref1,
title="Financial distress and suicidal behaviour during COVID-19: family identification attenuates the negative relationship between COVID-related financial distress and mental Ill-health",
journal="Journal of health psychology",
year="2021",
author="Stevenson, Clifford and Wakefield, Juliet Ruth Helen",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="COVID-19 provides a 'perfect storm' of social and economic suicide risk-factors. Recent research has evidenced an initial impact of the pandemic upon suicide rates, but has yet to understand how elevated financial threat and social isolation may predict suicide ideation/behaviour, or which social factors promote resilience. This study addressed these shortcomings. An online longitudinal survey study (N = 370) which took place from May to September 2020 showed COVID-related financial distress predicts suicidal thoughts and behaviour via increased depression and loneliness. Family identification attenuates these relationships. Our findings reaffirm the importance of social factors in reducing mental ill-health outcomes of economic crises.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1359-1053",
doi="10.1177/13591053211014597",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13591053211014597"
}