TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Childhood maltreatment and college students' current suicidal ideation: a test of the hopelessness theory
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Hogan, M. E.
A1  - Whitehouse, W. G.
A1  - Rose, Donna T.
A1  - Abramson, Lyn Y.
A1  - Alloy, Lauren B.
A1  - Gibb, Brandon E.
SP  - 405
EP  - 415
VL  - 31
IS  - 4
N2  - 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.
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SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -