ArticlePsychiatry research2021
Lonely, anxious, and uncertain: Critical risk factors for suicidal desire during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Belongingness and loneliness in higher education: a meta-analysis of pre- and post-pandemic trends.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Global Research on Pandemics or Epidemics and Mental Health: A Natural Language Processing Study.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2024Pooled it
- Is Increased Video Game Participation Associated With Reduced Sense of Loneliness? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- Familial Risk and Resilience Moderate the Association Between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Youth Suicidal Ideation.Journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
- Alterations of Cortical Thickness in High Suicidality Patients with Panic Disorder and Their Relationship with Symptomatology and Treatment Response.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
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- Emotion-related impulsivity factors and intolerance of uncertainty are uniquely associated with interpersonal-psychological risk factors for suicide.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2025Article
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- A one-arm pilot trial of a telehealth CBT-based group intervention targeting transdiagnostic risk for emotional distress.PloS one · 2025Article
- Psychometric analysis of the social connectedness instrument.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- Psychosocial and financial well-being mediated the effects of COVID-19 distress on suicidality: a serial mediation model among Hong Kong young adults.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
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- Revisiting the work-suicide link: renewed evidence and models of analysis in workplace contexts.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The association of social, economic, and health-related variables with suicidal and/or self-harm thoughts in individuals admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit during the COVID-19 pandemic: An exploratory study.Psychiatry research · 2023Article
- Association Between Loneliness, Premenstrual Symptoms, and Other Factors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study with Japanese High School Students.International journal of women's health · 2023Article
- Contribution of perceived loneliness to suicidal thoughts among French university students during the COVID-19 pandemic.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Public health measures enacted early in response to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in unprecedented physical isolation. Social isolation, or the objective experience of being alone, and loneliness, the subjective feeling of being lonely, are both implicated in suicidal ideation. Anxiety sensitivity (i.e., fear of somatic anxiety) and intolerance of uncertainty (distress due to uncertainty), may also be heightened in response to the pandemic increasing risk for suicidal ideation in response to social isolation and loneliness. The direct and interactive relations loneliness, anxiety sensitivity, and intolerance of uncertainty shared with suicidal ideation were examined using structural equation modeling across two samples. Sample 1 comprised 635 people (M age = 38.52, SD = 10.00; 49.0% female) recruited using Mechanical Turk in May 2020. Sample 2 comprised 435 people (M age = 34.92, SD = 14.98; 76.2% female) recruited from faculty, staff, and students at a midwestern university in June 2020. Loneliness and anxiety sensitivity were positively, uniquely associated with suicidal ideation across samples. Results of this study were cross-sectional and included only self-report measures. These findings highlight loneliness and anxiety sensitivity as important correlates of suicidal ideation. Modular treatments should be employed to target these mechanisms to reduce COVID-19-related suicidal ideation.
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