Asian American College Students' Suicide Ideation: A Mixed-Methods Study

Autor/inn/en	Wong, Y. Joel; Koo, Kelly; Tran, Kimberly K.; Chiu, Yu-Chen; Mok, Yvonne
Titel	Asian American College Students' Suicide Ideation: A Mixed-Methods Study
Quelle	In: Journal of Counseling Psychology, 58 (2011) 2, S.197-209 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0167
DOI	10.1037/a0023040
Schlagwörter	College Students; Prevention; Suicide; Cultural Differences; Asian Americans; Psychological Patterns; Correlation; Qualitative Research; Racial Bias; Intervention; Student Attitudes; Expectation; Interpersonal Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Selbstmord; Kultureller Unterschied; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Korrelation; Qualitative Forschung; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Schülerverhalten; Expectancy; Erwartung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Abstract	The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to explore the phenomenon of suicide ideation among 293 Asian American college students. Guided by T. Joiner's (2005) interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior, the authors examined the relationships among perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, self-construals, and suicide ideation. Compared with thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness was a more robust predictor of suicide ideation. However, thwarted belongingness moderated the positive association between perceived burdensomeness and suicide ideation. Furthermore, interdependent self-construal and independent self-construal both weakened the link between perceived burdensomeness and suicide ideation and between thwarted belongingness and suicide ideation. The authors also conducted a qualitative analysis of participants' open-ended responses about their perceptions of why Asian American college students might consider suicide. The authors identified a core phenomenon of unfulfilled expectations as well as 2 broad themes related to this core phenomenon: unfulfilled intrapersonal expectations and unfulfilled interpersonal expectations, comprising the subthemes of (a) family, (b) relationship, (c) cultural differences, and (d) racism. These findings are discussed in terms of implications for suicide-related clinical interventions and primary prevention efforts among Asian American college students. (Contains 6 figures and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10