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Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

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Perfectionism, Hopelessness, And Suicide Ideation: Revisions to Diathesis-Stress and Specific Vulnerability Models

Auteurs: Kirk R. Blankstein, Crystal Hillis Lumley, Alison Crawford

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy | Uitgave 4/2007

Abstract

The current study examined variables (daily hassles, self-esteem, dispositional optimism, coping modes, and perceived social support) that could potentially moderate associations between dimensions of perfectionism and current feelings of hopelessness and suicide ideation in university students (144 women; 61 men). Our study revealed several significant findings: (1) socially prescribed perfectionism was a significant predictor of suicide ideation, interpersonal hopelessness, and achievement hopelessness for both women and men; (2) self-oriented perfectionism did not have an independent relation with any of the suicide risk outcome variables in either women or men; (3) other-oriented perfectionism was associated negatively with both current hopelessness, particularly interpersonal hopelessness, and suicide ideation in men; (4) the cluster of proposed moderators accounted for additional unique variance in all suicide risk variables in women but in achievement hopelessness only in men; (5) optimism and social hassles were unique predictors but the results varied as a function of gender and outcome; (6) each perfectionism component interacted with specific moderators to enhance or buffer the link between perfectionism and suicide risk. The findings indicate that self-oriented and other-oriented perfectionism are possibly adaptive or maladaptive under certain conditions. Implications for the development of comprehensive, multidimensional, integrated models of the perfectionism–suicide risk link and for prevention and treatment in perfectionists at risk of suicide are discussed.

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Tables of inter-correlations among all variables, including for the total sample, are available from the first author. There were numerous gender differences in the relations among variables. For example, although optimism was significantly correlated with all coping modes, especially avoidance (r = −.42), among women, none of the correlations was significant among men.

Details of tests of the difference between correlation coefficients are available from the first author.

The conditional effects of the separate moderator blocks are not reported here due to space limitations and because our primary focus was on the interaction between perfectionism components and the specific moderators. The detailed results are available from the first author.

Details of these analyses, including tests on the slopes and figures illustrating significant interactions are available from the first author.

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Titel: Perfectionism, Hopelessness, And Suicide Ideation: Revisions to Diathesis-Stress and Specific Vulnerability Models
Auteurs: Kirk R. Blankstein
Crystal Hillis Lumley
Alison Crawford
Publicatiedatum: 01-12-2007
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy / Uitgave 4/2007
Print ISSN: 0894-9085
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6563
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-007-0053-6

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