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Ego-resiliency moderates the risk of depression and social anxiety symptoms on suicidal ideation in medical students

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the role of protective factors in suicidal ideation among medical students. This study aimed to examine the association between suicidal ideation and protective (self-esteem/ego-resiliency/social support) and risk (depression/social anxiety) factors. METHODS: Data o...

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Autores principales: Seo, Eun Hyun, Yang, Hae-Jung, Kim, Seung-Gon, Yoon, Hyung-Jun
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9206746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35717375
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-022-00399-x
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author Seo, Eun Hyun
Yang, Hae-Jung
Kim, Seung-Gon
Yoon, Hyung-Jun
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Yang, Hae-Jung
Kim, Seung-Gon
Yoon, Hyung-Jun
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description BACKGROUND: Little is known about the role of protective factors in suicidal ideation among medical students. This study aimed to examine the association between suicidal ideation and protective (self-esteem/ego-resiliency/social support) and risk (depression/social anxiety) factors. METHODS: Data on sociodemographic factors, depression, social anxiety, self-esteem, ego-resiliency, social support, and current suicidal ideation were collected from 408 medical students. A logistic regression model was constructed to identify the independent impact of potential influencing factors on suicidal ideation. Potential moderating effects were also explored. RESULTS: Thirty-eight participants (9.3%) reported experiencing suicidal ideation. Younger age, higher levels of depression, social anxiety, and lower levels of self-esteem, ego-resiliency, and social support were found to be significantly correlated with suicidal ideation. In the final model, higher levels of depression and social anxiety were associated with an increased risk of suicidal ideation, while higher levels of self-esteem and social support were associated with a decreased risk of suicidal ideation. Although the independent effect was not significant, the interactions of ego-resiliency with both depression and social anxiety on suicidal ideation were significant. Higher levels of ego-resiliency acted as a buffer against suicidal ideation among those with higher levels of depression or social anxiety. CONCLUSIONS: In addition to risk factors, this study revealed the underlying protective and moderating factors of suicidal ideation among medical students. Mental health programs focusing on enhancing ego-resiliency, self-esteem, and social support may contribute to suicide prevention in medical students.
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spelling pubmed-92067462022-06-20 Ego-resiliency moderates the risk of depression and social anxiety symptoms on suicidal ideation in medical students Seo, Eun Hyun Yang, Hae-Jung Kim, Seung-Gon Yoon, Hyung-Jun Ann Gen Psychiatry Research BACKGROUND: Little is known about the role of protective factors in suicidal ideation among medical students. This study aimed to examine the association between suicidal ideation and protective (self-esteem/ego-resiliency/social support) and risk (depression/social anxiety) factors. METHODS: Data on sociodemographic factors, depression, social anxiety, self-esteem, ego-resiliency, social support, and current suicidal ideation were collected from 408 medical students. A logistic regression model was constructed to identify the independent impact of potential influencing factors on suicidal ideation. Potential moderating effects were also explored. RESULTS: Thirty-eight participants (9.3%) reported experiencing suicidal ideation. Younger age, higher levels of depression, social anxiety, and lower levels of self-esteem, ego-resiliency, and social support were found to be significantly correlated with suicidal ideation. In the final model, higher levels of depression and social anxiety were associated with an increased risk of suicidal ideation, while higher levels of self-esteem and social support were associated with a decreased risk of suicidal ideation. Although the independent effect was not significant, the interactions of ego-resiliency with both depression and social anxiety on suicidal ideation were significant. Higher levels of ego-resiliency acted as a buffer against suicidal ideation among those with higher levels of depression or social anxiety. CONCLUSIONS: In addition to risk factors, this study revealed the underlying protective and moderating factors of suicidal ideation among medical students. Mental health programs focusing on enhancing ego-resiliency, self-esteem, and social support may contribute to suicide prevention in medical students. BioMed Central 2022-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9206746/ /pubmed/35717375 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-022-00399-x Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Seo, Eun Hyun
Yang, Hae-Jung
Kim, Seung-Gon
Yoon, Hyung-Jun
Ego-resiliency moderates the risk of depression and social anxiety symptoms on suicidal ideation in medical students
title Ego-resiliency moderates the risk of depression and social anxiety symptoms on suicidal ideation in medical students
title_full Ego-resiliency moderates the risk of depression and social anxiety symptoms on suicidal ideation in medical students
title_fullStr Ego-resiliency moderates the risk of depression and social anxiety symptoms on suicidal ideation in medical students
title_full_unstemmed Ego-resiliency moderates the risk of depression and social anxiety symptoms on suicidal ideation in medical students
title_short Ego-resiliency moderates the risk of depression and social anxiety symptoms on suicidal ideation in medical students
title_sort ego-resiliency moderates the risk of depression and social anxiety symptoms on suicidal ideation in medical students
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9206746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35717375
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-022-00399-x
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