A meaningful life is worth living: Meaning in life as a suicide resiliency factor
Abstract
Given the high rate of suicide worldwide, it is imperative to find factors that can confer resiliency to suicide. The goal of the present study was to examine the search for and the presence of meaning in life as possible resilience factors. We hypothesized that the presence of, but not the search for, meaning in life would predict decreased suicidal ideation over an eight-week time period and decreased lifetime odds of a suicide attempt. We...
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Title
A meaningful life is worth living: Meaning in life as a suicide resiliency factor
Published Date
Dec 1, 2013
Journal
Volume
210
Issue
3
Pages
934 - 939
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