TY - JOUR PY - 2022// TI - Self-compassion and suicidal behavior: Indirect effects of depression, anxiety, and hopelessness across increasingly vulnerable samples JO - Self and identity A1 - Kelliher-Rabon, J. A1 - Sirois, F.M. A1 - Barton, A.L. A1 - Hirsch, J.K. SP - 223 EP - 243 VL - 21 IS - 2 N2 - 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.

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LA - en SN - 1529-8868 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2021.1884592 ID - ref1 ER -