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KMID : 0614420090320010199
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Mental Health & Social Work
2009 Volume.32 No. 1 p.199 ~ p.214
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Negative Life Stressors and Suicide Ideation in Community Dwelling Older Adults -Compensatory and Buffering Effects of Protective Factors-
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Park Mi-Jin
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Abstract
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This study focuses on older adults’ suicide ideations from a protective perspective. The purpose of this study is to identify buffering effects and compensatory effects of protective factors in the relationship between negative life stressors and suicide ideations among community dwelling older adults. In studying suicide it is difficult to identify the reason why people commit suicide, so understanding and identifying suicide ideation is an important key to preventing suicide. The sample consists of 295 older adults in the Busan regions. The measures use suicide ideation questions, negaitve life stressors, self-efficacy, family support, social participation scale. This study runs hierarchical multiple regression for statistical analyses. The major findings are as follows. First, negative life stressors are identified as a risk factor. Second, self-efficacy and social participation have roles with compensatory and buffering effects in between negative life stressors and suicide ideations. Finally, the results are discussed in terms of practical implications for mental health social work in older adults’ suicide problems, and are discussed research limitations in this paper.
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KEYWORD
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suicide ideation, stressors, protective factors, buffering, compensatory effects
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