Associations between depression, anxiety, stress, hopelessness, subjective well-being, coping styles and suicide in Chinese university students

Suicide is a major public health concern worldwide. This study aimed to predict the suicidal behavior of Chinese university students by studying psychological measures such as hopelessness, orientation to happiness, meaning in life, depression, anxiety, stress, and coping styles. In November 2016, a...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one Jg. 14; H. 7; S. e0217372
Hauptverfasser:	Lew, Bob, Huen, Jenny, Yu, Pengpeng, Yuan, Lu, Wang, Dong-Fang, Ping, Fan, Abu Talib, Mansor, Lester, David, Jia, Cun-Xian
Format:	Journal Article
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	United States Public Library of Science 01.07.2019 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Schlagworte:	Adaptation, Psychological Adolescent Age Anxiety Anxiety - complications Anxiety - epidemiology Anxiety - ethnology Anxiety - psychology Asian Continental Ancestry Group Behavior Biology and Life Sciences China - epidemiology College students Colleges & universities Complications and side effects Coping Demographic aspects Depression - complications Depression - epidemiology Depression - ethnology Depression - psychology Epidemiology Female Females Health care Health risks Humans Male Males Medicine and Health Sciences Mental depression Mental disorders Mental health People and Places Prevention Preventive medicine Psychological aspects Psychological Distress Psychological factors Public health Random sampling Risk analysis Risk Factors Self-Assessment Social Sciences Statistical sampling Stress Stress (Psychology) Stress management Stress, Psychological - complications Stress, Psychological - epidemiology Stress, Psychological - ethnology Stroke Students Students - psychology Studies Substance abuse Substance use Substance-Related Disorders - complications Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology Substance-Related Disorders - ethnology Substance-Related Disorders - psychology Suicidal behavior Suicidal Ideation Suicide Suicide - ethnology Suicide - prevention & control Suicide - psychology Suicide - statistics & numerical data Suicide prevention Suicides & suicide attempts Surveys and Questionnaires Systematic review Universities University students Well being Young Adult Young adults China Hong Kong China Malaysia Selangor Malaysia United States > US
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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Zusammenfassung:	Suicide is a major public health concern worldwide. This study aimed to predict the suicidal behavior of Chinese university students by studying psychological measures such as hopelessness, orientation to happiness, meaning in life, depression, anxiety, stress, and coping styles. In November 2016, a stratified-clustered-random sampling approach was utilized to select subjects from two large public medical-related universities in Shandong province, China. This sample consisted of 2,074 undergraduate students (706 males, 1,368 females; mean age = 19.79±1.39 years). The students' major risk factors for suicide were depression, anxiety, stress, and hopelessness, and the students' minor risk factors included orientation to happiness and coping styles (including self-distraction, self-blame and substance use). Notably, the presence of meaning in life had a positive effect on preventing suicide and acted as a protective factor, which suggests that it is important to identify risk factors as well as protective factors relevant to the target population group in order to increase the effectiveness of counseling and suicide prevention programs.
Bibliographie:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 content type line 23 Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
ISSN:	1932-6203 1932-6203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0217372