%0 Journal Article
%T Self-compassion and suicidal behavior: Indirect effects of depression, anxiety, and hopelessness across increasingly vulnerable samples
%J Self and identity
%D 2022
%A Kelliher-Rabon, J.
%A Sirois, F.M.
%A Barton, A.L.
%A Hirsch, J.K.
%V 21
%N 2
%P 223-243
%X Suicide is a significant public health concern. Risk factors include depression, anxiety, hopelessness, being college-aged, and chronic illness. Self-compassion may reduce risk. We examined the relation between self-compassion and suicide risk, and the mediating effects of depression, anxiety, and hopelessness. Our cross-sectional study included four samples: community (N = 632, 51.7% female, M age = 35.91), collegiate (N = 338, 67.0% female, M age = 21.81), fibromyalgia (N = 508, 95.7% female, M age = 47.66) and cancer (N = 241, 64.3% female, M age = 61.28). Across all samples, self-compassion was related to less suicide risk (avg. r = .28), and all assessed psychopathology mediated this association. Future studies are needed to examine causal effects of study variables. © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.<p /><p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Informa - Taylor and Francis Group
%@ 1529-8868
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2021.1884592