ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR IN SUICIDE IDEATORS AND NON-IDEATORS

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon B. Ellis ◽  
Leslie N. Jones
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Female College Student ◽  
Reasons For Living ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Demographic Questionnaire ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Reasons For Living Inventory ◽  
And Coping

Research has shown that college students have a high risk of engaging in suicidal behaviors. Gaining more information about the belief systems of students and the adaptive reasons for living, lacking in suicide ideators, may provide valuable information about these behaviors and ways to prevent them. This study examined reasons for living in male and female college student suicide ideators and non-ideators in order to identify adaptive reasons for living, lacking in suicide ideators. Mean scores of the Reasons for Living Inventory (RFL) subscales and total score were used. Each subject answered a demographic questionnaire, a suicide questionnaire and the RFL. Analyses of Variance revealed a main effect for ideation status with non-ideators scoring higher than ideators on Survival and Coping Beliefs, Responsibility to Friends, and on the RFL total score. A main effect for sex was found on Fear of Suicide and Responsibility to Family subscales with women scoring higher than men. Women did not describe themselves as suicide ideators more often than did men.

Does Mood Affect Reasons for Living? Yes

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon B. Ellis ◽  
Lillian M. Range
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Brief Intervention ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Mood Induction ◽  
Reasons For Living ◽  
Mood Manipulation ◽  
Reasons For Living Inventory ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Relationship

Adaptive life-maintaining characteristics, which may be present in non-suicidal people and absent in suicidal people, have received little attention. This study examined the relationship between these adaptive characteristics and mood by giving the Reasons for Living Inventory (RFL) to 199 college students, a group that has recently been shown to be at high risk for suicidal behavior. Subjects completed the RFL, experienced a mood induction or served as a control, and then completed the RFL a second time. Analyses of variance of RFL change scores indicated that elated subjects differed from all others in overall RFL and responsibility to family scores, which improved while others remained about the same. Also, depressed subjects differed from all others in their survival and coping beliefs, which dropped while others remained about the same. These results suggest that a brief intervention such as a mood manipulation technique may positively or negatively affect reasons that people have for not committing suicide.

scholarly journals Parental Death, Grief and Bereavement: A Qualitative Study of College Students Who Have a Parent with Cancer

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Yong Tang ◽  
Yingying Li
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
College Student ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Parental Death ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Loss Of A Parent ◽  
Screening Survey

Objective The loss of a parent with cancer is one of the most traumatic events a college student can face. The purpose of this study was to identify the main elements of bereavement experiences among college students in China who lost a parent with cancer. Methods A total of 18 college students volunteered to take part in three focus groups. Results Four themes were developed through content analysis: facing huge life’s changes, experiencing loss and suffering, challenges and coping strategies for facing parental death, and re-interpreting death. These four main themes were then divided into 15 sub-themes. Conclusions The analysis showed that parental death may negatively influence college students’ bereavement processes. Bereavement should include screening to aid in the recognition of high-risk adolescents through screening survey and screening interviews.

Development of the College Student Reasons for Living Inventory with African Americans

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Westefeld ◽  
Amy Badura ◽  
Jeffery T. Kiel ◽  
Karen Scheel
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Reasons For Living ◽  
Reasons For Living Inventory

scholarly journals Risk of Marijuana Use in Male and Female College Student Athletes and Nonathletes*

2011 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 586-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer F. Buckman ◽  
David A. Yusko ◽  
Samantha G. Farris ◽  
Helene R. White ◽  
Robert J. Pandina
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
Marijuana Use ◽  
Female College Student ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female College ◽  
College Student Athletes

Relation of Functioning with Beliefs about Coping, and Future Time Perspective

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 947-953 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer D. Chubick ◽  
Catherine S. Boland ◽  
Arnold D. Witherspoon ◽  
Kellie L. Chaffin ◽  
Carolyn K. Long
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Reasons For Living ◽  
Level Of Functioning ◽  
Environmental Deprivation ◽  
Reasons For Living Inventory ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Guide Intervention

51 college students were administered the Reasons for Living Inventory, Zimbardo's Time Perspective Inventory, and the Environmental Deprivation Scale–Questionnaire. Pearson product-moment correlations indicated that those functioning well (low scores on the Environmental Deprivation Scale–Questionnaire) tended to have high scores on the future subscale of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory ( r = −.45, p < .001). There were no significant correlations with the Reasons for Living Inventory's total score or its Survival and Coping Beliefs subscale ( rs = .01 and .05, respectively). The results suggest the use of multidimensional cognitive and behavioral data to guide intervention to improve one's level of functioning. A limitation of the study is the small number of participants.

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