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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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.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 50101 Psychology
Country of publisher Switzerland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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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
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Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Vojtěch Juřík, Ph.D., učo 372092. Changed: 20/4/2021 19:59.
Abstract
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.
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