Stecz Patryk, Slezáčková Alena, Millová Katarína, Nowakowska-Domagała Katarzyna
Department of Preventive and Addiction Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Lodz, Smugowa 10/12, 91-433 Lodz, Poland.
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Arna Novaka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
J Happiness Stud. 2020;21(6):1965-1984. doi: 10.1007/s10902-019-00163-1. Epub 2019 Aug 5.
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 ± 5.15) 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.
本研究评估了幸福安康在评估自杀预防倾向以及将自杀视为一种解决方式方面的潜在价值。目的是整合心理健康的积极和消极概念，以预测助人专业学生对自杀及自杀预防的态度。研究参与者（166名女性和73名男性，平均年龄22.84±5.15）回答了一系列问卷，包括自杀态度问卷、戈德堡健康问卷（GHQ - 28）、心理幸福感量表（PWB - 42）和宗教虔诚度中心性量表。多元回归分析表明，在控制了宗教信仰以及与一般心理健康相关的心理问题后，环境掌控感、生活目标和积极人际关系能够预测对自杀的态度及预防倾向的变化。社会人口统计学变量与对自杀的态度无关。我们的研究结果表明，由低心理健康问题和幸福安康的幸福主义成分共同代表的积极心理健康，在预测预防倾向态度方面发挥着作用。因此，提升助人专业学生（未来的守门人）的积极心理健康，可被视为自杀预防的辅助策略。
