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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rüsch, Nicolas
• Oexle, Nathalie
• Thornicroft, Graham
• Keller, Johannes
• Waller, Christiane
• Germann, Ines
• Regelmann, Christina A
• Noll-Hussong, Michael
• Zahn, Roland

Titel

Self-Contempt as a Predictor of Suicidality: A Longitudinal Study

Ist Teil von

• The journal of nervous and mental disease, 2019-12, Vol.207 (12), p.1056-1057

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• People with mental illness can internalize public prejudice and negative emotional reactions to their group, leading to self-contempt. This study examined self-contempt related to having a mental illness as predictor of suicidality among 77 people with mental illness in Southern Germany. Self-contempt, depressive symptoms, hopelessness, and suicidality were assessed at baseline; suicidality was measured again 3 months later. High self-contempt at baseline predicted increased suicidality at follow-up, adjusting for baseline suicidality, symptoms, diagnosis, age, sex, and hopelessness. These results suggest that self-contempt may be a risk factor for suicidality and call for specific interventions targeting self-stigma and its emotional consequences.