Clarifying the role of emotion dysregulation in the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior in an undergraduate sample
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Participants
The sample consisted of 283 undergraduates ranging in age from 18 to 39 (mean = 19.34, standard deviation = 2.10). 109 (38.5%) of the participants were male, 166 (58.7%) were female, and 8 (2.8%) declined to indicate sex. The ethnic composition of the sample was 68.6% (n = 194) White, 13.1% (n = 37) Hispanic or Latino, 12.0% (n = 34) African American, 2.8% Asian (n = 8), and 3.5% (n = 10) other.
In order to control for the impact of potential third variables on our measure of pain tolerance,
Results
Means, standard deviations, minimums, maximums, and intercorrelations for the variables utilized in these analyses can be found in Table 1. Variable distributions were examined, and this examination revealed that one variable, pain tolerance, had significantskew (1.246) and kurtosis (1.887). These scores underwent a rank transformation that corrected for non-normality, resulting in diminished skew (.0) and kurtosis (1.2). For ease of presentation, the nontransformed means and standard
Discussion
The relationship between emotion dysregulation and suicide is frequently discussed, but research on this issue has thus far been unable to clarify the precise nature of that relationship. The central purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between two emotion dysregulation-related variables – distress tolerance and negative urgency – and the three components of the IPTS: thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness, and the acquired capability for suicide. Utilizing a sample
Funding source
No funding sources were utilized for this project.
Contributors
Author M.A. designed the study and managed data analysis. All authors took part in the interpretation of the results. Author M.A. managed the literature search and wrote the initial draft of the manuscript. All authors contributed to and have approved the final draft.
Conflict of interest
The authors of this manuscript do not have any conflicts of interest.
Acknowledgements
The authors greatly appreciate the work of Bruno Chiurliza, Charlie Spillers, Ryan Clark-Gonzalez, Jimmy Powers, Dusty Hunsaker, and Anthony Ferrari, who collected data during the course of the study.
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