The Predictive Role of Positive Mental Health for Attitudes
Towards Suicide and Suicide Prevention : Is the Well-Being of
Students of the Helping Professions a Worthwhile Goal for
Suicide Prevention?

J 2020

The Predictive Role of Positive Mental Health for Attitudes Towards Suicide and Suicide Prevention : Is the Well-Being of Students of the Helping Professions a Worthwhile Goal for Suicide Prevention?

STECZ, Patryk, Alena SLEZÁČKOVÁ, Katarína MILLOVÁ and Katarzyna NOWAKOWSKA‑DOMAGAŁA

Basic information

Original name

The Predictive Role of Positive Mental Health for Attitudes Towards Suicide and Suicide Prevention : Is the Well-Being of Students of the Helping Professions a Worthwhile Goal for Suicide Prevention?

Authors

STECZ, Patryk (616 Poland), Alena SLEZÁČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Katarína MILLOVÁ (703 Slovakia) and Katarzyna NOWAKOWSKA‑DOMAGAŁA (616 Poland)

Edition

Journal of Happiness Studies, Dordrecht, Springer, 2020, 1389-4978

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50101 Psychology

Country of publisher

Switzerland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.852

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/20:00115213

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-019-00163-1

UT WoS

000551942700003

Keywords (in Czech)

Pozitivní duševní zdraví; poruchy duševního zdraví; duševní pohoda; postoj k sebevraždě; pomáhající chování; hierarchická vícenásobná regrese

Keywords in English

Positive mental health; Mental health problems; Psychological well-being; Attitudes towards suicide; Helping behavior; Hierarchical multiple regression; Potential gatekeepers

Abstract

V originále

This study evaluates the potential value of eudaimonic well-being in assessing pro-preventive orientation towards suicide and recognizing suicide as a solution. The aim was to integrate positive and negative conceptualizations of mental health for predicting attitudes towards suicide, and towards suicide prevention, among students of the helping professions. The study participants (166 women and 73 men, mean age 22.84) answered a set of questionnaires, including a Questionnaire on Attitudes Towards Suicide, Goldberg Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28), Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWB-42) and Centrality of Religiosity Scale. Multiple regression analysis showed that environmental mastery, purpose in life and positive relationships, controlled for religiousness and psychological problems related to general mental health, predicted the variability of attitudes towards suicide and pro-preventive orientation. Sociodemographic variables were not related to attitudes towards suicide. Our findings suggest that positive mental health, represented jointly by low mental health problems and eudaimonic components of happiness, plays a role in predicting pro-preventive attitudes. Therefore, improving positive mental health among students in the helping professions, these being the future gatekeepers, could be considered an auxiliary strategy for suicide prevention.

Citovat

STECZ, Patryk, Alena SLEZÁČKOVÁ, Katarína MILLOVÁ and Katarzyna NOWAKOWSKA‑DOMAGAŁA. The Predictive Role of Positive Mental Health for Attitudes Towards Suicide and Suicide Prevention : Is the Well-Being of Students of the Helping Professions a Worthwhile Goal for Suicide Prevention? Journal of Happiness Studies. Dordrecht: Springer, 2020, vol. 21, No 6, p. 1965-1984. ISSN 1389-4978. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-019-00163-1.

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STECZ, Patryk, Alena SLEZÁČKOVÁ, Katarína MILLOVÁ and Katarzyna NOWAKOWSKA‑DOMAGAŁA. The Predictive Role of Positive Mental Health for Attitudes Towards Suicide and Suicide Prevention : Is the Well-Being of Students of the Helping Professions a Worthwhile Goal for Suicide Prevention? \textit{Journal of Happiness Studies}. Dordrecht: Springer, 2020, vol.~21, No~6, p.~1965-1984. ISSN~1389-4978. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-019-00163-1.

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