Year: 2014
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to evaluate the role of five dimensions of death attitudes (fear of death, death avoidance, approach acceptance, neutral acceptance, and escape acceptance) in the prediction of three dimensions of suicide attitude (acceptance of suicide, condemnation of suicide, and preventability of suicide) among a cross-section of counseling students' after controlling for the effects of six personal variables: (1) age, (2) gender, (3) religious beliefs, (4) suicide potential, (5) exposure to others' suicidal behaviors, and (6) personal suicidal behaviors, and six professional variables: (1) professional exposure to suicidal behaviors, (2) exposure to suicidal behaviors as a student, (3) academic standing, (4) prior professional experience, (5) death education, and (6) suicide training.A stratified random cluster sample of 183 counseling students enrolled in programs accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Programs (CACREP) and the Council for Rehabilitation Education (CORE) completed a 97-item survey online.Death attitudes were measured using the Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP-R; Wong, Reker, & Gesser, 1994) and suicide attitudes were measured using the Attitudes Towards Suicide Scale (ATTS; Renberg & Jacobsson, 2003).Results from hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that participants' death attitude scores accounted for statistically significant variance in participants'
Author: Eric T. Beeson
Institution: Ohio University
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2561178976