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    Suicide Attempts and Perceived Social Support among Chinese Drug Users: The Mediating Role of Self-Esteem and Depression

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    Author
    Deng, Yali
    Li, Xuemeng
    Liu, Liu
    Chui, Wing Hong
    Date
    2020-12-30
    Journal
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    Publisher
    MDPI AG
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    https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18010208
    Abstract
    Suicidal behavior is a severe problem among drug users. This study examines influential factors related to suicide attempts and analyzes possible mediators of the relationship between perceived social support and suicide attempts amongst Chinese drug users under compulsory institutional drug treatment. Taking perceived social support as the independent variable, we found that the relationship between suicide attempts and perceived social support is mediated by self-esteem as a protective factor and depression as a risk factor. Path analysis shows that self-esteem contributes relatively more to the indirect effects than depression does, accounting for 31.1% and 24.2% of the total effect, respectively. Generally speaking, the findings of this study point to an urgent need for addressing suicide attempts among Chinese drug users while treating self-esteem as the protective factor that deserves as substantial attention as depression receives. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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    Chinese drug users
    depression
    perceived social support
    self-esteem
    suicide attempts
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    10.3390/ijerph18010208
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