Individualism-Collectivism, Social Support, Resilience and Suicidal Ideation among Women with the Experience of the Death of a Young Person.
Saeed Ariapooran, Samaneh Heidari, Mohammad Asgari and 2 others
PMID 30035141WHAT IT FOUND
Nearly half of bereaved women showed suicidal ideation.
Higher social support, resilience, and collectivism linked to lower ideation. Individualism showed no link. These factors predict risk but do not prove treatment effects.
Key findings
0146.6% of the participating women had suicidal ideation scores above the cutoff.
02Suicidal ideation was negatively correlated with collectivism, social support, and resilience, but not with individualism.
03Social support, resilience, and collectivism were the most important contributors in predicting group membership regarding suicidal ideation.
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What it does not show
The study only included women, so results cannot be generalized to bereaved men. Data was collected via self-report questionnaires, which can be biased. There was no comparison group of women who had not experienced a death, so it is unclear if the levels of social support or resilience are different from the general bereaved population. The cross-sectional design cannot prove that low social support causes suicidal ideation, only that they are linked.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume that increasing social support or resilience will definitively reduce suicidal ideation. This is a cross-sectional survey showing associations, not a randomized trial proving that interventions work. The lack of a control group also means we do not know if these women's scores differ from non-bereaved women.