Rieger Slade J, Peter Tracey, Roberts Lance W
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
J Relig Health. 2015 Dec;54(6):2005-19. doi: 10.1007/s10943-014-9893-4.
Scholarly research focusing on social psychological factors (e.g. mental health) and social environmental factors (e.g. childhood trauma) has found these measures to be correlated with suicidality. However, such literature has tended to overlook what may impact one's reasons for living. Using a sample of over 1,200 students from a Canadian university, the goal of the current study is to empirically test, by employing multivariate nested regression models (by levels of suicidal behaviour), known and relative unknown correlates with reasons for living, with a particular focus on strength of religious faith, which is a well-known predictor for suicidality, but less studied as a reason for living. Results show that, among students with serious suicidal ideation and/or a previous suicide attempt, the strongest predictor for student's reasons for living was strength of religious faith. Strength of religious faith has seldom been acknowledged or identified as an important measure in assessing one's reasons to live. These findings have implications for the role of religiosity among suicidality research, especially studies that focus on reasons for living.
关注社会心理因素（如心理健康）和社会环境因素（如童年创伤）的学术研究发现，这些因素与自杀倾向相关。然而，这类文献往往忽视了可能影响一个人活下去理由的因素。本研究以一所加拿大大学的1200多名学生为样本，目标是通过运用多元嵌套回归模型（按自杀行为程度），实证检验与活下去理由相关的已知及相对未知因素，特别关注宗教信仰强度，它是自杀倾向的一个众所周知的预测因素，但作为活下去理由的研究较少。结果表明，在有严重自杀意念和/或曾有过自杀未遂经历的学生中，宗教信仰强度是学生活下去理由的最强预测因素。宗教信仰强度很少被视为评估一个人活下去理由的重要指标。这些发现对自杀倾向研究中宗教性的作用具有启示意义，尤其是那些关注活下去理由的研究。
