Social Life Events Research Articles

Early identification of bipolar disorder among young adults - a 22-year community birth cohort.

We set forth to build a prediction model of individuals who would develop bipolar disorder (BD) using machine learning techniques in a large birth cohort. A total of 3748 subjects were studied at birth, 11, 15, 18, and 22years of age in a community birth cohort. We used the elastic net algorithm with 10-fold cross-validation to predict which individuals would develop BD at endpoint (22years) at each follow-up visit before diagnosis (from birth up to 18years). Afterward, we used the best model to calculate the subgroups of subjects at higher and lower risk of developing BD and analyzed the clinical differences among them. A total of 107 (2.8%) individuals within the cohort presented with BD type I, 26 (0.6%) with BD type II, and 87 (2.3%) with BD not otherwise specified. Frequency of female individuals was 58.82% (n=150) in the BD sample and 53.02% (n=1868) among the unaffected population. The model with variables assessed at the 18-year follow-up visit achieved the best performance: AUC 0.82 (CI 0.75-0.88), balanced accuracy 0.75, sensitivity 0.72, and specificity 0.77. The most important variables to detect BD at the 18-year follow-up visit were suicide risk, generalized anxiety disorder, parental physical abuse, and financial problems. Additionally, the high-risk subgroup of BD showed a high frequency of drug use and depressive symptoms. We developed a risk calculator for BD incorporating both demographic and clinical variables from a 22-year birth cohort. Our findings support previous studies in high-risk samples showing the significance of suicide risk and generalized anxiety disorder prior to the onset of BD, and highlight the role of social factors and adverse life events.

Mental health and the risk of negative social life events: A prospective cohort study among the adult Danish population.

Background: The consequences of poor mental health on morbidity and mortality are well established. However, studies prospectively examining the consequences on social life events are lacking. This study prospectively examines the risk of various social life events (educational attainment, employment status, marital status and parenthood) defined in administrative registers by mental health status at baseline defined by the MCS-12 in the Danish adult population. Methods: The analysis is based on data from the Danish National Health Survey 2010. A total of 177,639 individuals completed the questionnaire (59.5% of the sample). MCS-12 was used to categorise participants according to mental health status (poor, moderate and good). Survey data were linked to administrative registers at the individual level and followed for a minimum of 4 years. Cox proportional hazards models were used to prospectively examine the risk of various social life events according to mental health status at baseline. Results: Individuals with poor mental health and, to a certain degree, individuals with moderate mental health were less likely to experience positive life events such as progression in educational level, getting married, being employed and becoming a parent and were more likely to experience negative life events such as becoming unemployed and divorced/widowed. Conclusions: Mental health status is associated with educational attainment, employment status, marital status and parenthood. These results add to a growing body of evidence indicating that poor mental health is associated with substantial societal-level impairments that should be taken into consideration when making decisions regarding allocation of treatment and research resources.

O uso da tipografia nas interfaces de jogos: uma leitura multimodal

Este artigo analisa o uso da tipografia presente nas interfaces de jogos digitais e promove uma análise multimodal com base na Gramática do Design Visual, de Kress e van Leeuwen (2006). Como suporte teórico para este estudo abordamos sobre multimodalidade (KRESS; VAN LEEUWEN, 2006), multiletramentos (THE NEW LONDON GROUP, 1996), jogos digitais (GEE, 2003) e tipografia (VAN LEEUWEN, 2006). Com o objetivo de analisar a contribuição da tipografia e da GDV nas interfaces de jogos digitais, investigamos quatro prints de jogos que contenham diálogos entre os participantes durante a jogabilidade. Os jogos selecionados foram Operate Now: Hospital (Spil Games, 2017), Gardenscapes (Playrix, 2016), Matchington Mansion (Firecraft Studios, 2017) e Hometown Romance (Pretty Teen Games, 2018). Com isso, pudemos observar através da tipografia e análise imagética a contribuição dos recursos semióticos e seu potencial comunicativo em jogos, proporcionando uma leitura multimodal e destaca seu poder comunicativo, atribuindo significados a diferentes modos, não apenas ao verbal.

What factors indicate prognosis for adults with depression in primary care? A protocol for meta-analyses of individual patient data using the Dep-GP database.

Background: Pre-treatment severity is a key indicator of prognosis for those with depression. Knowledge is limited on how best to encompass severity of disorders. A number of non-severity related factors such as social support and life events are also indicators of prognosis. It is not clear whether this holds true after adjusting for pre-treatment severity as a) a depressive symptom scale score, and b) a broader construct encompassing symptom severity and related indicators: "disorder severity". In order to investigate this, data from the individual participants of clinical trials which have measured a breadth of "disorder severity" related factors are needed. Aims: 1) To assess the association between outcomes for adults seeking treatment for depression and the severity of depression pre-treatment, considered both as i) depressive symptom severity only and ii) "disorder severity" which includes depressive symptom severity and comorbid anxiety, chronicity, history of depression, history of previous treatment, functional impairment and health-related quality of life. 2) To determine whether i) social support, ii) life events, iii) alcohol misuse, and iv) demographic factors (sex, age, ethnicity, marital status, employment status, level of educational attainment, and financial wellbeing) are prognostic indicators of outcomes, independent of baseline "disorder severity" and the type of treatment received. Methods: Databases were searched for randomised clinical trials (RCTs) that recruited adults seeking treatment for depression from their general practitioners and used the same diagnostic and screening instrument to measure severity at baseline - the Revised Clinical Interview Schedule; outcome measures could differ between studies. Chief investigators of all studies meeting inclusion criteria were contacted and individual patient data (IPD) were requested. Conclusions: In total 15 RCTs met inclusion criteria. The Dep-GP database will include the 6271 participants from the 13 studies that provided IPD. This protocol outlines how these data will be analysed. Registration: PROSPERO CRD42019129512 (01/04/2019).

Type D personality and life event stress: the mediating effects of social support and negative social relationships

ABSTRACT Background and Objective: Type D personality has been associated with increased perceptions of stress. As Type D individuals have been noted to report lower social support and greater perceptions of negativity in social interactions, this study examined if the association between Type D personality and life events stress was mediated by these social relationships. Design: A cross-sectional design. Methods: Undergraduate students (N = 197) completed questionnaires assessing Type D personality, social support, negative social relationships, and life events stress. Results: Unadjusted analyses revealed that Type D individuals perceived their life events to be significantly more stressful than non-Type D individuals. Type D individuals also reported increased perceptions of negative social relationships and lower social support. Finally, the association between Type D personality and life events stress was mediated by perceptions of negative social relationships. However, when controlling for the main effects of negative affectivity and social inhibition, Type D was not significantly associated with social relationship or life events variables. Further, effects appeared to be primarily driven by negative affectivity. Conclusion: These results support recent findings in the Type D literature that have identified null effects of Type D when controlling for negative affectivity.

Religious Metaphors in Public Speeches of Turkish Politicians

Religion is an integral part of culture of the Turkish people. An important feature of the cultural and socio-political sphere of Turkey is the frequent use of expressions with religious content, among which metaphor is prominent. This study investigates religious metaphors used by Turkish politicians. The data analysis is carried out on the basis of the material obtained by means of a self-compiled corpus, which consists of public speeches of Turkish politicians (e.g., the President, deputies, and leaders of the main political parties of Turkey) for the period of 2010-2019. The paper claims that the core religious beliefs of the Turks have a great impact on the way they see and perceive the surrounding reality, which is reflected in metaphorical expressions they use. Therefore, Turkish politicians often associate other political figures, political processes, and events of social and political life with religious characters, episodes, and phenomena. This principle formed the basis of the model of “Social and Political Reality is Religion” for its analysis on the metaphoric expressions. The analysis suggests that metaphor is a significant tool of representing Islamic ethics in Turkish public discourse. Despite the fact that a religious metaphoric model is often characterized by positive emotionality, the aforementioned model has both positive and negative connotations.

History of Western Belarus in 1921–1939 in domestic soviet historiography of the 1950s–1980s.

The study is aimed at understanding the process of formation and development of the Soviet national historiography in 1950s–1980s of the socio­cultural history of Western Belarus in 1921–1939, identifying its thematic, ideological and political orientation. Based on a wide range of sources, a conclusion was made about the conditionality of domestic journalism and scientific historical thought on the socio-cultural issues of Western Belarus in 1921–1939. the assimilation policy of Poland and the desire of the Belarusian people for social liberation and national consolidation. With the exception of the problems of the communist and democratic press and the state of public education, there was no systematic substantive development of the topic during the Soviet period, which was explained by the secondary importance of cultural themes in the system of Marxist-Leninist methodology. The events of social and cultural life were used to confirm the difficult situation of the Belarusian people and as an illustration of the revolutionary struggle for “social and national liberation”, the approaches to its study were determined by the place and role of the Communist Party in the social and political situation, the Polish was clearly negative and alien to Belarusians. Socio-cultural influence on Western Belarus, ignoring the socio-cultural life of members of other national minorities and under control Communist Party groups. Socio-cultural issues developed in accordance with the Marxist-Leninist social-class canons, aimed at leveling national features and fostering internationalist priorities, resulting in the impoverishment of the sociocultural history of Western Belarus, the rejection of significant achievements of the Belarusian people in material and spiritual culture, in the field of education and science literature and art.

Unwed Mother:A Socio-Legal Study

Context: This research evaluated the effects of a social support program on young unwed mothers. Measures of social support, stress, affect, and life events were compiled by 15 program participants and 15 matched controls before and after the program six months later. The results showed significant increases in the size of the family and friend network for program participants relative to controls. Also, program participants reported more involvement in work and school and maintained a high level of positive affect significantly more than controls. The two groups did not differ in reported levels of stress. The implications of the findings for future research and program development were discussed.

Roman social «community» in epigram of Martialis (axiology of the socially differentiated whole)

The study deals with differentiated social «communities» peculiar to the Roman society of the late period (Empire era), which formed the «meaningful contents» of the everyday life culture constructs. As one of the typical «artifacts» there are considered «book» texts (epigrams of Martialis), reflecting «small» events of social and family life of Rome. The study aims to trace the transformation of traditional social communities (of the class, family, political, professional, ethnic types) caused by historical social practice, Roman ideology, mental concepts and stereotypes of social behavior. The methodology of the study is determined by the interrelations of the «epistemological fields» of related disciplines within which the studied phenomena are represented in different aspects. The research is conducted at the intersection of philosophy, sociology (including sociology of culture) and textual criticism; the axiological aspect of the problem under discussion acquires a special meaning. The analyses of literary sources allows to trace the static and dynamics of the daily culture of antiquity, reflecting the profound changes that occurred both in the formation structures of the «great» Rome and in the sociocultural space of Roman antiquity. The scope of application of the research results is not limited to the field of humanities; possible follow-up may involve expansion of the range of sources (up to material sources, such as archaeological, statistical) and specialization in one of the areas indicated in the paper. The conclusions demonstrate the potential of the axiological approach (in conjunction with the philosophy of culture and social psychology) to the studied social and cultural phenomena.

The Analysis of Network Expressions Under the Positive Energy Ecology of Real Society

At the end of the 20th century, with the rapid development of modern science and technology, the world has entered an Internet era, and a new mainstream medium -- network language has emerged. In this Internet age, Chinese Internet language has gone through such a process: from extensive to standard and orderly, from transmitting negative energy to advocating positive energy, and from immature at the beginning to mature today. A review of the "top ten Internet expressions of the year" released by the China language resources monitoring and research center from 2015 to 2019 shows that most of these Internet buzzwords are closely related to social life, and the number of cyber languages that embody core socialist values has also increased significantly. For example, the "top 10 cyber languages" in 2019 reflects this feature. In terms of its annual network buzzwords, much of which comes from the social life and political events, positive energy is the main melody, it has showed people not only pay attention to own life, also pay attention to the social life, and the thought and behavior also gradually return to unity, made the network language toward the right direction of healthy and orderly development. Of course, cyber language has also brought some bad effects, but we should not give up eating for fear of choking, we should give correct guidance, because it is still in the process of constant development and change, so the country will always be on the road to its regulatory norms.

Factors Associated with Relapse of Schizophrenia in Bangladesh

Context: In the face of increasing number of relapse cases of schizophrenia, sufficient work is not available in Bangladesh. Aims: To find out the common factors of relapse of schizophrenia in Bangladesh and to find out the relationship of relapse of schizophrenia with sociodemographic characteristics. Settings and Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study; Department of Psychiatry, Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Dhaka and Psychiatry department of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Dhaka. Materials and Methods: Data from 50 relapse patients receiving treatment of schizophrenia were collected, from April 2018 to September 2018. Statistical Analysis Used: The data were processed and analyzed with the help of computer program SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) win version 16. Results: The mean age was 31.16 (±10.59) years ranging from 14 to 55 years. Majority of the respondents 70% (n=35) were under 35 years. 62% (n=31) of the respondents were male and 38% (n=19) were female. 96% (n=48) of the respondents were Muslims. 52% (n=26) of the respondents were married and 46% (n=23) were unmarried. 46% (n=23) were from rural background and 54% (n=27) of the respondents were from urban background. 40% (n=20) of the respondents were from lower class, 52% (n=26) were from middle class, and only 8% (n=4) were from higher class. 56% (n=28) of the respondents had perceived stressful life events and 44% (n=22) of the respondents had no such history. 52% (n=26) of the patients had experienced high expressed emotion and 48% (n=24) had low expressed emotion. Among the 50 relapsed schizophrenia patients, only 26% (n=13) had full compliance, 30% (n=15) had full noncompliance and rest had partial compliance. There was no significant relationship between educational status and medication compliance in the current study. The study revealed significant association with lower social class and presumptive stressful life events. Conclusions: This study highlighted the perceptions of schizophrenic patients and their caregivers about factors that influence relapse. It indicated that stressful life events, high expressed emotion, and non-compliance to medication had a role in relapse. This study provides information about socio-demographic and other related factors which can offer important guideline for future study. Adherence to antipsychotic medication, reducing high expressed emotion and stressful life events protect patients from relapse.

Risk factors for suicide: Systematic review

The occurrence of suicide has increased worldwide, and it is the second leading cause of death among young people between 15 and 29 years old. Therefore, to describe and understand the risk factors for suicide in this population is very important. To examine 30 articles were included in the body of analysis of this review, most of which were produced/published in economically developed countries. Randomized, quasi-randomized, and observational analytical studies (cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional), with populations sample between 10 and 25 years old were included. Risks related to factors of the social environment and life events, psychological factors, and sociodemographic characteristics were identified. The risk factors are presented under different analyses, but the authors claim that suicide is not a single-cause event. Suicide is a very complex phenomenon, determined by the interaction between several factors, such as biological, psychological, and sociocultural and family environment, with a great impact on the world public health.

Association between medicated obstructive pulmonary disease, depression and subjective health: results from the population-based Gutenberg Health Study

Medicated obstructive pulmonary disease (asthma or COPD) has been associated with depression. Yet, there is little knowledge of the interplay of contributing social, biological, behavioral and psychological factors in the community. The study was conducted: (1) To determine the prevalence of depression in participants with medicated COPD or asthma from the general population, (2) to identify underlying social, biological, behavioral and psychological factors and (3) to determine the contribution of obstructive pulmonary disease and depression to subjective health. The population-based sample of 15.010 study participants (35–74 years) from the Gutenberg Health Study (GHS) was queried according to a medical diagnosis of obstructive pulmonary disease, defined as medicated COPD or asthma, and comorbid disorders. Demographic, behavioral and psychological factors were assessed by self-report; lung function (FEV1; FCV) was measured by spirometry. 307 men (4.3%) and 396 women (5.6%) reported a medical diagnosis of COPD or asthma. The prevalence of depression (PHQ-9 > = 10) was twice as high (16.2% vs. 7.5%) compared to participants without obstructive pulmonary disease. Participants with obstructive pulmonary disease were older, had a lower SES, more comorbid diseases and cardiovascular risk factors, higher distress and took more psychotropic medication. In multivariable logistic regression analyses, obstructive pulmonary disease was associated with a 71% increase of depression (OR = 1.71; 95% CI = 1.30 to 2.24). Additional contributors were FEV1 (1.18; 95% CI = 1.05 to 1.32) and dyspnea (NYHA > = 1) (2.19; 1.82 to 2.64), sex (women) (OR = 1.73; 95% CI 1.41 to 2.12), lower SES (OR = 0.98; 95%CI = 0.96 to 0.99). Lack of active sports OR = 0.79; 95% CI 0.68 to 0.92), obesity (OR 1.27; 95% CI 1.07 to 1.50), smoking (OR = 1.26; 95% CI 1.06 to 1.49) and dyslipidemia (OR = 1.35; 95% CI 1.15 to 1.57) also increased the risk of depression. Additional psychological risks were social phobia, type D, low social support, loneliness and life events in the past 12 months. In multivariable linear regression analyses, obstructive pulmonary disease and depression independently contributed to reduced subjective health in addition to sedentary behavior, smoking and comorbid somatic and mental disorders. These findings provide evidence that COPD and asthma are associated with depression in the community. Complex underlying demographic, medical and psychosocial variables have been identified which may justify an integrative treatment approach. Promoting health behavior (smoking cessation, exercising, weight reduction) and social integration may not only improve the somatic course of the disease, but also mental health. Mental health treatment may also improve health behavior and subjective health.

Associations between maternal social support and stressful life event with ventricular septal defect in offspring: a case-control study

BackgroundPrevious studies suggested that maternal subjective feeling of stress seemed to be involved in the incidence of congenial heart disease in offspring. To better understand the findings, our study would discuss the relationships of maternal exposure to stressful life event and social support, which are more objective and comprehensive indicators of stress, around periconceptional period with the risk of ventricular septal defect (VSD), the most popular subtype of congenital heart disease.MethodsA hospital-based case-control study was conducted through June, 2016 to December, 2017. We collected maternal self-reports of 8 social support questions in 3 aspects and 8 stressful life events among mothers of 202 VSD cases and 262 controls. Social support was categorized into low, medium high, and high (higher is better), and stressful life event was indexed into low, medium low, and high (higher is worse). Logistic regression models were applied to estimate adjusted odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI).ResultsThe adjusted odds ratio of high stressful life event was 2.342 (95% CI: 1.348, 4.819) compared with low stressful life event. After crossover analysis, compared with low event & high support, the adjusted odds ratio of low event & low support, high event & high support, and high event & low support were 2.059 (95% CI: 1.104, 3.841), 2.699 (95% CI: 1.042, 6.988) and 2.781 (95% CI: 1.033, 7.489), respectively.ConclusionsIn summary, we observed an increased risk of VSD when pregnant women exposed to stressful life events, however, social support could, to some extent, reduce the risk of stressful life event.

What factors indicate prognosis for adults with depression in primary care? A protocol for meta-analyses of individual patient data using the Dep-GP database.

Background: Pre-treatment severity is a key indicator of prognosis for those with depression. Knowledge is limited on how best to encompass severity of disorders. A number of non-severity related factors such as social support and life events are also indicators of prognosis. It is not clear whether this holds true after adjusting for pre-treatment severity as a) a depressive symptom scale score, and b) a broader construct encompassing symptom severity and related indicators: "disorder severity". In order to investigate this, data from the individual participants of clinical trials which have measured a breadth of "disorder severity" related factors are needed. Aims: 1) To assess the association between outcomes for adults seeking treatment for depression and the severity of depression pre-treatment, considered both as i) depressive symptom severity only and ii) "disorder severity" which includes depressive symptom severity and comorbid anxiety, chronicity, history of depression, history of previous treatment, functional impairment and health-related quality of life. 2) To determine whether i) social support, ii) life events, iii) alcohol misuse, and iv) demographic factors (sex, age, ethnicity, marital status, employment status, level of educational attainment, and financial wellbeing) are prognostic indicators of outcomes, independent of baseline "disorder severity" and the type of treatment received. Methods: Databases were searched for randomised clinical trials (RCTs) that recruited adults seeking treatment for depression from their general practitioners and used the same diagnostic and screening instrument to measure severity at baseline - the Revised Clinical Interview Schedule; outcome measures could differ between studies. Chief investigators of all studies meeting inclusion criteria were contacted and individual patient data (IPD) were requested. Conclusions: In total 15 RCTs met inclusion criteria. The Dep-GP database will include the 6271 participants from the 13 studies that provided IPD. This protocol outlines how these data will be analysed. Registration: PROSPERO CRD42019129512 (01/04/2019).

What factors indicate prognosis for adults with depression in primary care? A protocol for meta-analyses of individual patient data using the Dep-GP database

Background: Pre-treatment severity is a key indicator of prognosis for those with depression. Knowledge is limited on how best to encompass severity of disorders. A number of non-severity related factors such as social support and life events are also indicators of prognosis. It is not clear whether this holds true after adjusting for pre-treatment severity as a) a depressive symptom scale score, and b) a broader construct encompassing symptom severity and related indicators: “disorder severity”. In order to investigate this, data from the individual participants of clinical trials which have measured a breadth of “disorder severity” related factors are needed. Aims: 1) To assess the association between outcomes for adults seeking treatment for depression and the severity of depression pre-treatment, considered both as i) depressive symptom severity only and ii) “disorder severity” which includes depressive symptom severity and comorbid anxiety, chronicity, history of depression, history of previous treatment, functional impairment and health-related quality of life. 2) To determine whether i) social support, ii) life events, iii) alcohol misuse, and iv) demographic factors (sex, age, ethnicity, marital status, employment status, level of educational attainment, and financial wellbeing) are prognostic indicators of outcomes, independent of baseline “disorder severity” and the type of treatment received. Methods: Databases were searched for randomised clinical trials (RCTs) that recruited adults seeking treatment for depression from their general practitioners and used the same diagnostic and screening instrument to measure severity at baseline – the Revised Clinical Interview Schedule; outcome measures could differ between studies. Chief investigators of all studies meeting inclusion criteria were contacted and individual patient data (IPD) were requested. Conclusions: In total 15 RCTs met inclusion criteria. The Dep-GP database will include the 6271 participants from the 13 studies that provided IPD. This protocol outlines how these data will be analysed. Registration: PROSPERO CRD42019129512 (01/04/2019)

INTERRELATION OF THE CHANGES IN WORD FORMATION WITH THE CHANGES IN THE LEXICAL SYSTEM OF THE UKRAINIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 19TH – BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY

The article deals with the problem of interrelation of the changes in word formation with the changes in the lexical system of the Ukrainian literary language in the middle of the 19th – beginning of the 21st century. Vocabulary is the element of speech system, which is always reacts to all important social life events. Changes in social life lead to the appearance of realities that require names. n addition to extra-linguistic, there are also intralinguistic factors of changes in vocabulary. The article pays attention to a number of changes in the system of word formation caused by changes in the vocabulary of Ukrainian literary language of the middle of the 19th – beginning of the 21st century.The following regularities are functioning in the word formation system of Ukrainian literary language of the middle of the 19th – beginning of the 21st century: a) the growth of agglutinativity in semantics and the structure of a derivative word, which manifests itself in the loss of polysemy of word-forming morphemes, weakened alternations at the junctions of morphemes, reduction of the number of allomorphs, increase in the number of cases of interfixation. There is also a decrease in the number of variant formations and variants of morphemes; b) rapid development in the 20th–21st centuries of the new word-formation method – abbreviation, the growth of the number of words formed by means of abbreviation with suffixation, as well as by means of compounding and compounding with suffixation; c) tendency to increase the productivity and regularity of productive and regular word-formation types, as well as the tendency to decrease the productivity and regularity of unproductive and irregular word-formation types, which leads to the growth of the specialization of word-formation means; d) strengthening of stylistic delimitation of word-building means in the 20th–21st centuries; e) the growth of changes in the semantics of word-formation types under the influence of changes in the partial word-formation meanings inherent in these types. On the other hand, changes in partial word-formation values are associated with the changes in vocabulary (the transition of vocabulary to outdated, the appearance of neologisms).The middle of the 19th – the first half of the 21st century is a period of interest to linguists not only in terms of analyzing changes in the lexical composition of the Ukrainian language, but also in terms of analyzing changes in the system of word formation.

Social Connectedness in Preventing Suicide among Older Adults

Social isolation and social disconnectedness have resulted in some older adults ending their lives by suicide; therefore, improving social connectedness has become an integral part of suicide prevention programmes. The purpose of this literature review was to assess the impact of social connectedness interventions for preventing suicide in older adults. It is evident that interventions aimed at promoting social connectedness are intended to alleviate stress and depressive symptoms due to social separation and traumatic life events, and improve resilience, allowing people to manage their difficult situations. Improving connectedness beyond the individual level has the potential to reduce the risk of suicide, and as a suicide prevention strategy, it has given promising hope for authorities in minimising the suicidal crisis. Improved interpersonal relationships among individuals not only diminish suicide-related morbidity and mortality but also enhance the psychosocial wellbeing of older adults.

Interactions between Partnership Quality, Life Satisfaction and Partnership Stability of Mothers with Underage Children - A Ten-Year Follow-up Study

Although a stable and satisfactory relationship is an important aim in life, every third marriage is currently being divorced. Life satisfaction as well as the transition to parenthood seem to be significant factors. Therefore, the current longitudinal study examines the association between relationship quality, stability, life satisfaction of mothers and other family characteristics over a ten-year period. Longitudinal data from N=249 mothers were analyzed in terms of partnership stability, quality, life satisfaction and other variables using regression analyses. Mother's satisfaction with life remained relatively stable over 10 years, while relationship quality decreased significantly over time. Especially the interindividual life satisfaction seemed to be a significant predictor for long-term partnership quality, mental health of mother and child, social status and critical life events. The initial relationship quality also appeared to be a significant predictor for the perceived life satisfaction and mothers' mental health. Only marginal correlations were found between life satisfaction and partnership stability. This study shows bidirectional associations between relationship quality and life satisfaction over the course of 10 years. Especially life satisfaction seemed to have an impact on diverse family factors. The findings should be used to develop new or existing prevention and intervention programs for partnership, whereas life satisfaction of the individual should be spotlighted.

Social Rejection and Suicidal Ideation and Attempts among Adolescents Following Hospitalization: a Prospective Study.

Despite research indicating that stressful life events are associated with subsequent suicidal ideation (SI) and behavior, there is a lack of clarity regarding whether specific types of life events are differentially related to SI and attempts. The current prospective study examines whether social rejection related life events are proximally related to SI and suicide attempts in a clinically acute sample of adolescents. Adolescents aged 12 to 18 (n = 219) were followed for 6months after discharge from inpatient hospitalization. A contextual threat interview of stressful life events between index admission and 6-month follow-up was administered. Participants were also assessed for current SI and suicide attempts at baseline and 6-month follow-up. Results from a multiple linear regression model indicateda significant prospective association between number of social rejection stressors and SI, even after controlling for baseline depressive symptoms, SI at study entry, gender, age, and number of non-social rejections stressors. An Anderson-Gill recurrent events model was conducted to examine the relationship between SR stressors and suicide attempts. Results demonstrated that the 31days following a major social rejection stressor were associated with heightened risk for prospective suicide attempts. However, social rejection stressors were not more strongly related to risk for suicide attempt than non-social rejection stressors. These findings help clarify the role of social rejection as a precipitant of suicidal crises and have potential to inform more accurate, targeted risk assessment.