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Purpose in Life, Satisfaction with Life, and Suicide Ideation in a Clinical Sample

Heisel, Marnin J., Flett, Gordon L.·2004·Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment

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Do Meaning in Life and Purpose in Life Protect Against Suicide Ideation Among Community-Residing Older Adults?
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“In contrast, individuals with lower levels of neuroticism may experience less negative emotion, even in the midst of an acute life stressor or a mental disorder, thereby reducing the risk for suicide (Heisel and Flett, 2004; Marneros, 2006; Votta and Manion, 2004).”
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“This finding was consistent with past findings of significant associations among social hopelessness, depression, and suicide ideation in college student, psychiatric patient, and older adult samples (Flett et al., submitted for publication; Heisel and Flett, 2004; Heisel et al., 2003).”
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“Meaning and purpose in life have also been identified as protective factors against SI (Heisel & Flett, 2004; Kleiman & Beaver, 2013; Sinclair, Bryan, & Bryan, 2016) and a positive predictor of well-being (McMahan & Renken, 2011) and positive affect (Hicks & King, 2009).”
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“More importantly for this study, scores on the single-item measure of life satisfaction are known to be a good global indicator of general pathology, for example, depression in Australia (Cummins et al., 2010) and suicide ideation overseas (Heisel & Flett, 2004).”
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“Life satisfaction was significantly negatively correlated with suicidal ideation (14), and life dissatisfaction was an important cause of suicide (15).”
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Predicting Suicide Risk in Trauma Exposed Veterans: The Role of Health Promoting Behaviors
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“Life satisfaction is also a negative predictor of suicidal ideation (Heisel and Flett, 2004).”
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“Therefore, adolescents with less emotional stability would tend to feel less life satisfaction and more depressive symptoms, which in turn would facilitate greater suicidal ideation [21].”
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Life Satisfaction, Positive Youth Development, and Problem Behaviour Among Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong
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“These results seem not to support, or at least not fully to support, Hypotheses 1 and 3 of this study and some orthodox academic views (Fujino et al., 2005; Heisel & Flett, 2004; Soares et al., 2016; Yao et al., 2014).”
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“Literature data indicate that low meaning in life is associated with depression and suicide (47), whereas high meaning in life protects against suicidal ideation (41, 48).”
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“Experiential evidence supports this notion; studies have found that purpose in life moderates the relationship between depression and suicidal ideation (Heisel and Flett 2004) and is linked to lower levels of depression in different populations (Owens et al.”
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“In this context, focusing on purpose has been shown to be linked to well-being and mental health and is more productive than centering on risk factors in promoting well-being (Heisel & Flett, 2004).”
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“Unit cohesion and meaning in life are positively correlated with overall psychological well-being and positive emotional states [16–18], but are negatively correlated with suicidal ideation [19,20].”
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“With some exceptions (e.g., Heisel and Flett 2004; Vansteenkiste et al. 2013) well-being factors have usually been neglected in formulations of deliberate self-harm which tend to emphasise the presence of negative psychological factors.”
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Authors: Heisel, M. J., & Flett, G. L.
Affiliations: University of Rochester Medicine (US)
York University (CA)
Corresponding author: Heisel, Marnin J.
ORCID: Heisel, Marnin J.
Flett, Gordon L.
Venue: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2004-06
Volume: 26
Issue: 2
Pages: 127-135
ISSN: 0164-0305 (ISSN-L)
0882-2689
1573-3505
DOI: 10.1023/b:joba.0000013660.22413.e0
OpenAlex: W1968960231
Cited by: 324
References: 40
Citations by year: 2026: 9 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 25 · 2013: 20 · 2012: 11
FWCI: 5.27
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (tdm)
www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (vor)
Locations: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment (publishedVersion)
Funders: York University
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
Keywords: meaning of life, life satisfaction, suicidal ideation, psychiatric patients, depression, neuroticism, resilience, mediation, moderation, existential themes, suicide risk prediction

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