TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Associations of religiosity, attitudes towards suicide and religious coping with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in 11 Muslim countries
JO  - Social science and medicine (1982)
A1  - Eskin, Mehmet
A1  - Baydar, Nazli
A1  - El-Nayal, Mayssah
A1  - Asad, Nargis
A1  - Noor, Isa Multazam
A1  - Rezaeian, Mohsen
A1  - Abdel-Khalek, Ahmed M.
A1  - Al Buhairan, Fadia
A1  - Harlak, Hacer
A1  - Hamdan, Motasem
A1  - Mechri, Anwar
A1  - Isayeva, Ulker
A1  - Khader, Yousef
A1  - Khan, Aqeel
A1  - Al Sayyari, Alaa
A1  - Khader, Albaraa
A1  - Behzadi, Bahareh
A1  - Öztürk, Cennet Şafak
A1  - Agha, Hazem
A1  - Hendarmin, Laifa Annisa
A1  - Khan, Murad Moosa
SP  - e113390
EP  - e113390
VL  - 265
IS  - 
N2  - OBJECTIVE: The study investigated the associations of religiosity, religious coping and suicide acceptance to suicide ideation and attempts in 7427 young adults affiliating with Islam from 11 Muslim countries.     METHOD: A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect the data. We used F and χ2 tests and correlation analyses to report descriptive statistics. Multi-group path models with (i) a zero-inflated Poisson distribution and, (ii) a Binomial distribution were used to model the number of occurrences of suicidal ideation, and occurrence of a suicide attempt, respectively.     RESULTS: Religiosity was negatively associated with acceptability of suicide, but it was positively related to punishment after death across the 11 countries. Religiosity was negatively associated with ever experiencing suicidal ideation, both directly and indirectly through its association with attitudes towards suicide, especially the belief in acceptability of suicide. Neither positive nor negative religious coping were related to suicidal ideation. However, religiosity was negatively related to suicide attempts among those who experienced suicidal ideation at least once. This association was mediated through the belief in acceptability of suicide and religious coping. Negative religious coping was positively associated with suicide attempts probably because it weakened the protective effects of religiosity.     CONCLUSIONS: Findings from this study suggest that the effects of religiosity in the suicidal process operate through attitudes towards suicide. We therefore conclude that clinical assessment as well as research in suicidology may benefit from paying due attention to attitudes towards suicide.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0277-9536
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113390
ID  - ref1
ER  -