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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Soc. Psychol.
Sec. Gender, Sexuality and Relationships
Volume 2 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/frsps.2024.1487339

Specific Reasons for Living and Suicide Resilience Mechanisms Negatively Predict Suicide Risk among Sexual Minorities

Provisionally accepted
Maryke Van Zyl Maryke Van Zyl *
  • San Francisco VA Health Care System, Veterans Health Administration, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, San Francisco, United States

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    Introduction: Sexual minority (SM) adults experience disproportionately high rates of suicide, yet it is not clear what protective factors offset the risk of suicide.A cross-sectional online survey of 564 SM adults assessed associations between suicide outcomes, suicide resilience and reasons for living (RFL).Results: Survival and Coping Beliefs and Moral Objections subscales of the RFL, as well as Suicide Resilience were negatively associated with likelihood of future suicide attempts.Suicide resilience and some RFL subscales are protective against suicide for SM adults, which not only supports the use of RFL and resilience among SM adults, but provides an empirical foundation for developing a culturally-specific RFL measure.

    Keywords: Suicidality, Protective factors, suicide resilience, Reasons for living, LGBTQ+ Specific Reasons for Living and Suicide Resilience Mechanisms Negatively Predict Suicide Risk among Sexual Minorities

    Received: 27 Aug 2024; Accepted: 04 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Van Zyl. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Maryke Van Zyl, San Francisco VA Health Care System, Veterans Health Administration, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, San Francisco, United States

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