Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, PR China.
Crisis. 2022 Mar;43(2):90-97. doi: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000755. Epub 2021 Jan 21.
According to the broaden-and-build model of positive mood, positive emotions are believed to broaden cognition resources and build psychological resiliency, to help incur positive psychological outcomes. We examined hope as a potential mediator of the association between positive mood and suicide protection (viz., life satisfaction and reasons for living) in adults. We hypothesized that positive mood would be associated with greater suicide protection through broadening hope agency and building hope pathways. A sample of 320 college students completed measures of positive emotions, hope, and suicide protection. Results from bootstrapped mediation testing indicated that hope agency, but not hope pathways, partially or fully mediated the relationship between positive mood and suicide protection. It is not clear whether these findings are generalizable to a more diverse adult population. Also, it is not possible to rule out alternative causal models involving positive emotions and suicide protection. These findings provide some promising preliminary evidence for how positive emotions might help build hope agency to foster greater suicide protection in adults.
根据积极情绪的拓宽-构建模型，积极情绪被认为可以拓宽认知资源并建立心理韧性，从而有助于产生积极的心理结果。我们研究了希望作为积极情绪与自杀保护（即生活满意度和生存理由）之间关联的潜在中介。我们假设积极情绪通过拓宽希望能力和建立希望途径与更大的自杀保护相关。一项包含 320 名大学生的样本完成了积极情绪、希望和自杀保护的测量。通过自举中介测试的结果表明，希望能力部分或完全中介了积极情绪与自杀保护之间的关系，但希望途径则没有。目前还不清楚这些发现是否适用于更具多样性的成年人群体。此外，也不能排除涉及积极情绪和自杀保护的替代因果模型。这些发现为积极情绪如何帮助建立希望能力以促进成年人更大的自杀保护提供了一些有希望的初步证据。
