TY - JOUR
T1 - Thwarted Interpersonal Needs and Suicide Ideation Distress Among Psychiatric Inpatients
T2 - The Moderating Role of Criminal Associates
AU - Mitchell, Sean M.
AU - Cukrowicz, Kelly C.
AU - Roush, Jared F.
AU - Brown, Sarah L.
AU - Alquist, Jessica L.
AU - Bolaños, Angelea D.
AU - Morgan, Robert D.
AU - Poindexter, Erin K.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported, in part, by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (T32 MH020061).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - Psychiatric inpatients are at elevated risk of suicide, and approximately half are criminal justice-involved. Their involvement with criminal associates may be linked to increased suicide ideation distress; however, this has not been examined. This study tested main effects of, and interactions between, thwarted belongingness (TB) or perceived burdensomeness (PB), time spent with associates, and associates’ criminal involvement predicting suicide ideation distress. In our study, psychiatric inpatients (n = 139) completed assessments cross-sectionally. Results indicated that TB, PB, and associates’ criminal involvement were significantly related to greater suicide ideation distress. A significant three-way interaction indicated participants who endorsed high TB, spent more time with associates, and had associates high in criminal involvement had the greatest probability of “Extreme” suicide ideation distress. These findings suggest that spending time with criminal associates may increase suicide ideation distress more than not having social interactions. Implications and limitations of this study are discussed.
AB - Psychiatric inpatients are at elevated risk of suicide, and approximately half are criminal justice-involved. Their involvement with criminal associates may be linked to increased suicide ideation distress; however, this has not been examined. This study tested main effects of, and interactions between, thwarted belongingness (TB) or perceived burdensomeness (PB), time spent with associates, and associates’ criminal involvement predicting suicide ideation distress. In our study, psychiatric inpatients (n = 139) completed assessments cross-sectionally. Results indicated that TB, PB, and associates’ criminal involvement were significantly related to greater suicide ideation distress. A significant three-way interaction indicated participants who endorsed high TB, spent more time with associates, and had associates high in criminal involvement had the greatest probability of “Extreme” suicide ideation distress. These findings suggest that spending time with criminal associates may increase suicide ideation distress more than not having social interactions. Implications and limitations of this study are discussed.
KW - criminal associates
KW - perceived burdensomeness
KW - suicide ideation
KW - thwarted belongingness
KW - time spent with associates
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U2 - 10.1177/0306624X19842027
DO - 10.1177/0306624X19842027
M3 - Article
C2 - 30957603
AN - SCOPUS:85064159742
SN - 0306-624X
VL - 63
SP - 2138
EP - 2156
JO - International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
JF - International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
IS - 12
ER -