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- Title
Understanding the Relationship between Domestic Abuse and Suicide Behavior in Adults Receiving Primary Care: Does Forgiveness Matter?
- Authors
Chang, Edward C.; Kahle, Emma R.; Yu, Elizabeth A.; Hirsch, Jameson K.
- Abstract
This study examined the interrelation of domestic abuse, forgiveness of self, forgiveness of others, and suicide behavior in a community sample of 101 patients receiving primary care from a clinic in the southeastern United States. As expected, it was found that more frequent experience of domestic abuse was associated with more frequent suicide behavior. Results from conducting mediation analyses and using bootstrapping techniques provided support for a model in which the relationship between domestic abuse and suicide behavior was accounted for by forgiveness of self, but not by forgiveness of others. The article concludes with a discussion of some of the implications of the present findings for practice and the study's limitations.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN States; FAMILY violence &; psychology; SUICIDE risk factors; CONFIDENCE intervals; FORGIVENESS; PRIMARY health care; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCALE analysis (Psychology); SELF-perception; SUICIDAL behavior; SUICIDAL ideation; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Social Work, 2014, Vol 59, Issue 4, p315
- ISSN
0037-8046
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/sw/swu028