Suicidality and cognitive vulnerability to depression among college students: a prospective study

Using a behavioral high-risk two-site prospective design, we tested the cognitive vulnerability hypotheses about suicidality. Consistent with prediction, the high cognitive risk (HR) participants were more likely than the low cognitive risk (LR) participants to exhibit suicidality, measured by both...

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Published in:Journal of adolescence (London, England.) England.), 1998-08, Vol.21 (4), p.473-487
Main Authors: Abramson, Lyn Y., Alloy, Lauren B., Hogan, Michael E., Whitehouse, Wayne G., Cornette, Michelle, Akhavan, Sogoli, Chiara, Alexandra
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
At Risk Persons
Cognition & reasoning
Cognition Disorders - diagnosis
Cognition Disorders - psychology
Cognitive processes
Cognitive Style
College Students
Depression
Depression (Psychology)
Depressive Disorder - diagnosis
Depressive Disorder - psychology
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Higher Education
Hopelessness
Humans
Late Adolescents
Male
Mental depression
Mental Health
Personality Assessment
Prevention
Prospective Studies
Psychological Evaluation
Relationship
Risk
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Students - psychology
Suicidal ideation
Suicide
Suicide - prevention & control
Suicide - psychology
Suicide, Attempted - prevention & control
Suicide, Attempted - psychology
Suicides & suicide attempts
Vulnerability
Young adults
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Summary:Using a behavioral high-risk two-site prospective design, we tested the cognitive vulnerability hypotheses about suicidality. Consistent with prediction, the high cognitive risk (HR) participants were more likely than the low cognitive risk (LR) participants to exhibit suicidality, measured by both structured diagnostic interview and questionnaire self-report, during the 21/2 year prospective follow-up period. Moreover, when the prospective period was examined as a whole, the mediation hypothesis derived from the cognitive theories was strongly supported. Hopelessness appeared to mediate the obtained relationship between cognitive vulnerability and suicidality. Finally, the obtained relationship between cognitive vulnerability and suicidality was not mediated by other hypothesized risk factors for suicidality not specified in the cognitive theories, such as past suicidality, personal history of depressive disorders, borderline and antisocial personality dysfunction, and parental history of depression.
ISSN:0140-1971
1095-9254
DOI:10.1006/jado.1998.0167