Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 36, Issue 1-2, Pages 109-121Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1007/s10464-005-6236-3
Keywords
African American women; suicide attempts; intimate partner violence; protective factors; hope; social support; spirituality; self-efficacy
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Protective factors ( hope, spirituality, self-efficacy, coping, social support-family, social support-friends, and effectiveness of obtaining resources) against suicide attempts were examined in economically, educationally, and socially disadvantaged African American women ( 100 suicide attempters, 100 nonattempters) who had experienced recent intimate partner violence. Significant positive associations were found between all possible pairs of protective factors. Bivariate logistic regressions revealed that higher scores on each of the seven protective factors predicted nonattempter status; multivariate logistic regressions indicated that higher scores on measures of hope or social support-family showed unique predictive value for nonattempter status. Further, the multivariate model accurately predicted suicide attempt status 69.5% of the time. Partial support was found for a cumulative protective model hypothesizing a linear relationship between the number of protective factors endorsed and decreased risk for suicide attempts. Implications of these findings for community-based preventive intervention efforts and future research are discussed.
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