Farid S M, Pourhosein R, Afrooz G. The Causal Modeling of Suicidal Psychopathology Based on Spiritual Health and Ego Strength; A Study with a Preventive View by Self-Injurious. sjsph 2025; 22 (3) :293-308
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http://sjsph.tums.ac.ir/article-1-6342-en.html
1- Ph.D. Student, Department of Psychology, Faculty of International Campus, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2- Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran , prhosein@ut.ac.ir
3- Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychology and Education of Exceptional Children, Institute of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Abstract: (83 Views)
Background and Aim: The suicide is one of the threatening topics for the health general of society, and spiritual health and ego strength strength are among the factors that can be effective in reducing it. Therefore, this study aimed to the causal modeling of suicidal psychopathology based on spiritual health and ego strength.
Materials and Methods: The present study was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population included all individuals with a history of suicide registered in the site of the Payesh Center in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS) in the first half of year 2022. Among them, 210 people were selected by purposive sampling and they answered the Inventory of Motivations for Suicide Attempts (May & Klonsky, 2013), Spiritual Wellbeing Scale (Paloutzian & Ellison, 1982), and Psychosocial Inventory of Ego Strength (Markstrom, 1997). Data were analyzed using path analysis of structural equation in SPSS23 and Amos24 softwares.
Results: The findings showed that direct effect spiritual health (negatively) on suicidal psychopathology is significant (p <0.05). Also, the results of the mediating role of ego strength showed that ego strength have a significant mediating role between spiritual health and suicidal psychopathology (p <0.05).
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the spiritual health directly, and ego strength indirectly has been effective on the suicidal psychopathology. Therefore, it is suggested that mental health clinics pay attention to their spiritual health and ego strength in review suicidal psychopathology of individuals with a history of suicide.
Type of Study:
Research |
Subject:
Public Health Received: 2025/04/9 | Accepted: 2025/03/30 | Published: 2025/03/30