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Abstract
Identifying elevated suicide ideation in college students is a critical step in preventing suicide attempts and deaths by suicide on college campuses. Although suicide ideation may be most prominent in students with severe depression, this should not suggest that only students with severe depression experience significant risk factors for suicide. Objective: The purpose of these 3 studies was to explore the relation between suicide ideation and severity of depressive symptoms in college students. Participants: In each study a sample of college students were recruited for participation. Methods: Participants completed self-report assessments of depressive symptoms and suicide ideation. Results: The results of these studies suggest that although the greatest elevation in suicide ideation occurs at the highest depressive symptoms, significant suicide ideation is also experienced by college students with mild and moderate depressive symptoms. Conclusions: The implications of these findings for the assessment of suicide ideation are discussed.
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An evaluation of assumptions for general linear model indicated a violation of the assumption of normally distributed data. Due to the low frequency of endorsement of suicide ideation, DSI-SS data was positively skewed. To address this concern, results of the original analysis (ANCOVA) were compared to those utilizing the Poisson distribution. The pattern of results was identical for all analyses in Study 1, as well as Studies 2 and 3 later. Therefore, all results are presented from the original ANCOVA analyses.
