Defeat, Entrapment, and Hopelessness: Clarifying Interrelationships between Suicidogenic Constructs.

ABSTRACT: Psychological theories of suicide posit conceptually similar constructs related to the development of suicidal thinking. These constructs often evince high-magnitude interrelationships across studies. Within these theories, defeat, entrapment and hopelessness standout as conceptually and quantitatively similar. Theoretical improvements may be facilitated through clarifying the subscale and item-level similarities among these constructs. Factor analytic and phenomenological work has demonstrated equivocal evidence for a distinction between defeat and entrapment; hopelessness is not typically analyzed together with defeat and entrapment despite evidence of large-magnitude interrelationships. This study explored the interrelationships among the foregoing constructs within a sample of undergra

SUBMITTER: Oakey-Frost DN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9517901 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature