A longitudinal examination of cultural risk factors of suicide and emotion regulation.

ABSTRACT: The present study is a secondary analysis that tested whether difficulties with emotion regulation (DER) would statistically mediate cultural risk factors of suicide and depression symptoms or suicidal behaviors among (a) Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and (b) lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals. BIPOC (n = 246), and LGBTQ (n = 203) participants completed measures on cultural risk factors of suicide, DER, depression symptoms, and suicidal behaviors at three time points from a larger remote randomized controlled trial (RCT). Simple and parallel mediation explored whether there were indirect effects of cultural risk of suicide on depression or suicidal behaviors via DER. Hypotheses were partially supported: simple mediation reveale

SUBMITTER: Mata-Greve F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10004089 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature