Childhood Maltreatment and College Students' Current Suicidal Ideation: A Test of the Hopelessness Theory

作者：Brandon E. Gibb, Lauren B. Alloy, Lyn Y. Abramson, Donna Rose, Wayne G. Whitehouse, Michael E. Hogan · 发表于：Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior · 年份：2001 · DOI：10.1521/suli.31.4.405.22042 · 被引用次数：91 · 研究领域：Suicide and Self-Harm Studies、Child Abuse and Trauma、Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Few studies have examined the relation between childhood maltreatment and adult suicidality within the context of a coherent theoretical model. The current study evaluates the ability of the hopelessness theory of depression's (Abramson, Metalsky, & Alloy, 1989) etiological chain to account for this relation in a sample of 297 undergraduates. Supporting the model, emotional, but not physical or sexual, maltreatment was uniquely related to average levels of suicidal ideation across a 2.5-year follow-up. Further, students' cognitive styles and average levels of hopelessness partially mediated this relation. Although these results cannot speak to causality, they support the developmental model evaluated.