scholarly journals Influential Path of Social Risk Factors toward Suicidal Behavior—Evidence from Chinese Sina Weibo Users 2013–2018

Author(s):  
Yujin Han ◽  
He Li ◽  
Yunyu Xiao ◽  
Ang Li ◽  
Tingshao Zhu

(1) Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine suicidal risk factors, the relationship and the underlying mechanism between social variables and suicidal behavior. We hope to provide empirical support for the future suicide prevention of social media users at the social level. (2) Methods: The path analysis model with psychache as the mediate variable was constructed to analyze the relationship between suicidal behavior and selected social macro variables. The data for our research was taken from the Chinese Suicide Dictionary, Moral Foundation Dictionary, Cultural Value Dictionary and National Bureau of Statistics. (3) Results: The path analysis model was an adequate representation of the data. With the mediator psychache, higher authority vice, individualism, and disposable income of residents significantly predicted less suicidal behavior. Purity vice, collectivism, and proportion of the primary industry had positive significant effect on suicidal behavior via the mediator psychache. The coefficients of harm vice, fairness vice, ingroup vice, public transport and car for every 10,000 people, urban population density, gross domestic product (GDP), urban registered unemployment rate, and crude divorce rate were not significant. Furthermore, we applied the model to three major economic development belts in China. The model’s result meant different economic zones had no influence on the model designed in our study. (4) Conclusions: Our evidence informs population-based suicide prevention policymakers that incorporating some social factors like authority vice, individualism, etc. can help prevent suicidal ideation in China.

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Putri Inggrid Maria Risamasu

This study aims to determine the effect of work environment, workload and work stress on employee performance at PT Pelabuhan Indonesia IV (Persero) Merauke Branch. The type of research used in this research is descriptive verification. The sample is 45 people, which is the entire population. Data collection methods used were interviews and questionnaires. Data were analyzed by path analysis model with Smart PLS 2.0 program to determine the relationship between variables. The results showed that partially the work environment has a positive and significant effect on performance, workload has a positive and significant effect on performance, work stress has a positive and significant effect on performance. For indirect influence, competence and influential workload positive and significant impact on employee performance through work stress at PT Pelabuhan Indonesia IV (Persero) Branch of Merauke.   Keywords: performance, work environment, workload, work stress  


2000 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marla Berg-Weger ◽  
Doris McGartland Rubio ◽  
Susan S. Tebb

This study examines the relationship between caregiver characteristics and caregiver well-being as comprised of two components, activities of living and basic needs. The role of depression in predicting caregiver well-being is explored using a sample of caregivers of family members with a chronic illness. Using a path-analysis model, multivariate findings suggest that depression explains 56% of the variance in activities of living and 64% in basic needs. Path analysis further identifies depression as a mediator between stress and well-being. Implications for research and practice are highlighted.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús de la Fuente

The aim of this research was to empirically validate hypothesized predictive relationships of protection and risk factors for experiencing academic stress. A synthesis of models—the presage–process–product model; the studying, learning and performing under stress competency model; and self- vs. external-regulatory theory—underlies the investigation and is important for assessment and guidance in stress situations within the university context. Over the course of an academic year, a sample of 564 Spanish university students voluntarily completed validated questionnaires, in an online format, on several psychological variables connected to academic stress. Correlational analysis and the path analysis model, within an ex post facto design, were used to build empirical models of the presage–process–product factors that constitute protection or risk factors in academic stress. Two statistically acceptable models appeared: one with protection factors and another with risk factors in predicting and preventing academic stress at a university. These results support the need for psychology units at university that have a preventive, health and education focus, going beyond the merely clinical. Focus on an individual is insufficient, given that there are also contextual factors that predispose academic stress. Discussion, conclusions, and implications for assessment and intervention in academic stress in university students and teachers, within the present COVID-19 crisis, are offered.


2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-123
Author(s):  
Yousef Moradi ◽  
Mahshid Nasehi ◽  
Mohsen Asadi-Lari ◽  
Mohamad Ebrahim Khamseh ◽  
Hamid Reza Baradaran ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-58
Author(s):  
Leila Rafighi ◽  
Seyed Hojjat Zamani Sani ◽  
Mahdi Bashiri ◽  
Zahra Fathirezaie

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