TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1996//
TI  - Disentangling the interrelations between hopelessness, loneliness, and suicidal ideation
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Rudd, Michael David
A1  - Joiner, Thomas E.
SP  - 19
EP  - 26
VL  - 26
IS  - 1
N2  - We attempted to disentangle the interrelations between hopelessness, loneliness, and suicidal ideation, by comparing two conceptually driven models of their relationships, prospectively among 234 undergraduates, using a series of multiple regression/correlation equations. Model 1 framed loneliness as a risk factor for future suicidality that operates via its influence on hopelessness (the mediational view). Model 2 viewed hopelessness as a source variable that is predictive of both loneliness and suicidality, and postulated no relation between loneliness and suicidality beyond hopelessness. Model 2 received support, whereas Model 1 did not. We discuss the implications of our findings for the nomological status of hopelessness and loneliness as correlates of suicidality, and for exploration of the structural interrelations of suicide-related variables in general.
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SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -