ArticleJournal of affective disorders2022
The interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide and the role of psychological pain during the COVID-19 pandemic: A network analysis.
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- Psychological wellbeing of Italian students and clinical assessment tools at university counseling services during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Targeting Psychological Pain After a Suicide Attempt: Scoping Review and Intervention Protocol.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Childhood trauma and recent suicide risk in major depressive disorder: exploring the mediating effect of resilience and cognitive emotion regulation strategies.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Suicidal Behavior in University Students in Spain: a Network Analysis.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- The resilience mediation effect on the relationship of suicide risk and psychological pain in nursing students: Structural equation modelling.Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing · 2025Article
- The effect of stress mindset on psychological pain: the chain mediating roles of cognitive reappraisal and self-identity.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Mental Pain Correlates with Mind Wandering, Self-Reflection, and Insight in Individuals with Psychotic Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Influencing factors of psychological pain among older people in China: A cross-sectional study.Heliyon · 2023Article
- A Longitudinal Network Analysis of the Interactions of Risk and Protective Factors for Suicidal Potential in Early Adolescents.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2023Article
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Abstract
introductionAmong the most investigated theories explaining suicidal behavior there are the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide (IPTS) by Thomas E. Joiner and the one focused on the construct of psychological pain (or psychache, or mental pain).
objectiveSince it remains unclear whether these two different theories correlate with each other in the explanation of suicidal risk, we used a network analysis approach to investigate the complex interplay between both IPTS and psychological pain theories and history of suicidal planning and/or suicide attempt (SP/SA).
methodsA sample of 1,586 university students from various Italian universities was recruited between April 24th, 2020 and February 23rd, 2021, hence during the COVID-19 pandemic. To be included subjects should have been university students and aged between 18 and 35 years old.
resultsWithin a network that included the core factors from both models (IPTS and psychological pain), higher fearlessness about death (Acquired Capability for Suicide Scale-Fearlessness About Death, ACSS-FAD) and higher psychological pain (Psychache Scale) were the variables most strongly associated with history of SP/SA.
conclusionsConsidering a large number of variables, history of SP/SA was explained in particular by fearlessness about death and psychological pain in university students. Hence these aspects should be targeted in the treatment for suicide prevention.
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