Citation

Priester MJ, Clum GA. J. Psychopathol. Behav. Assess. 1993; 15(3): 239-254.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF01371381

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The problem-solving deficit (PSD) diathesis-stress model of suicide behavior proposed by Clum, Patsiokas, and Luscomb (1979) and expanded by Schotte and Clum (1982, 1987) was examined in a short-term longitudinal test. The present study assessed the relationship between problem-solving deficits at Time 1-prior to the stressor (a D or F on a midterm examination)-and adjustment at Time 2-after the Stressor. Evidence was found for an additive predictive relationship for stress and problem-solving deficits to Time 2 measures of depressive symptoms, hopelessness, and suicide ideation. Evidence was also found that PSD × Stress interactions uniquely predicted the three criteria. The results of this study were taken as evidence of problem-solving deficits functioning as a diathesis for depression, hopelessness, and suicide ideation. © 1993 Plenum Publishing Corporation.

Language: en

Keywords

human; suicide; depression; stress; suicide ideation; hopelessness; article; questionnaire; problem solving; adjustment; longitudinal analysis