Coping, Reasons for Living, and Suicide in Black College Students.

BLACK college students; SUICIDAL behavior; MENTAL depression; EMOTIONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; SUICIDAL ideation; AVOIDANCE (Psychology); AFRICAN Americans

The authors examined the roles of reasons for living and coping in protecting against suicidal behaviors among 361 Black college students. Results of a path analysis revealed that reasons for living mediated against suicidal ideation through an inverse effect on depression. Results also indicated that greater use of emotion-oriented coping may lead to suicidal ideation through increased depression and decreased reasons for living, whereas avoidance-oriented coping protected against suicide. Implications for these results are further discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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