TY - JOUR
T1 - Five factor model traits as a predictor of suicide ideation and interpersonal suicide risk in a college sample
AU - DeShong, Hilary L.
AU - Tucker, Raymond P.
AU - O'Keefe, Victoria M.
AU - Mullins-Sweatt, Stephanie N.
AU - Wingate, La Ricka R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
PY - 2015/3/30
Y1 - 2015/3/30
N2 - Research has demonstrated an inconsistent relationship between suicide ideation and personality traits. This is the first study to empirically examine the relationship of the Five Factor Model of personality with current, past and no suicide ideation, and with the two interpersonal risk factors of suicide: thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness (Joiner, T., 2005. Why people die by suicide. Cambridge, MA, US: Harvard University Press). Results indicate that high neuroticism was associated with both current ideation and a history of suicide ideation and extraversion was associated with current ideation. Neuroticism was positively related to thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness, while extraversion was negatively related to these interpersonal predictors of suicide. Agreeableness was negatively related to thwarted belongingness but not perceived burdensomeness, indicating differentiated patterns of relationships between this personality domain and the two suicide constructs. Furthermore, these personality domains predicted 23.82% of variance for thwarted belongingness and 15.07% of the variance for perceived burdensomeness, above and beyond demographic variables associated with suicide ideation. This study, which was conducted with a college sample, demonstrates the potential benefit of identifying predispositional risk factors for suicide ideation and interpersonal predictors of suicide. This may have implications for the development of upstream preventative measures against suicide.
AB - Research has demonstrated an inconsistent relationship between suicide ideation and personality traits. This is the first study to empirically examine the relationship of the Five Factor Model of personality with current, past and no suicide ideation, and with the two interpersonal risk factors of suicide: thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness (Joiner, T., 2005. Why people die by suicide. Cambridge, MA, US: Harvard University Press). Results indicate that high neuroticism was associated with both current ideation and a history of suicide ideation and extraversion was associated with current ideation. Neuroticism was positively related to thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness, while extraversion was negatively related to these interpersonal predictors of suicide. Agreeableness was negatively related to thwarted belongingness but not perceived burdensomeness, indicating differentiated patterns of relationships between this personality domain and the two suicide constructs. Furthermore, these personality domains predicted 23.82% of variance for thwarted belongingness and 15.07% of the variance for perceived burdensomeness, above and beyond demographic variables associated with suicide ideation. This study, which was conducted with a college sample, demonstrates the potential benefit of identifying predispositional risk factors for suicide ideation and interpersonal predictors of suicide. This may have implications for the development of upstream preventative measures against suicide.
KW - Five-factor model
KW - Interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide
KW - Perceived burdensomeness
KW - Personality
KW - Suicide ideation
KW - Thwarted belongingness
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U2 - 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.01.002
DO - 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.01.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 25623017
AN - SCOPUS:84926218950
SN - 0165-1781
VL - 226
SP - 217
EP - 223
JO - Psychiatry research
JF - Psychiatry research
IS - 1
ER -