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Writing a suicide note: Testing the effects of childhood trauma and psychache
Campos, Rui C.; Bandarra, Daniela; Holden, Ronald R.Using a cross-sectional design, this study examined the relationship between childhood trauma and the writing of a suicide note as well as the mediation and moderation effects of psychache (i.e., psychological pain) on this relationship. A non-clinical sample of 1012 young adults aged 17 to 29 years (M = 19.56; SD = 1.94; 3.7% > 25 years) participated. A mediation model was tested using path analysis through st...
An exploratory study of painful and provocative events and suicidality: The med...
Campos, Rui C.; Holden, Ronald R.; D'Agata, Madeleine T.This research study examined physical dissociation and body insensitivity as sequential mediators in the relationship of painful and provocative events with suicidality. A sample of 290 American community adults (150 men, 140 women) participated. Mean age of participants was 37.24 years (SD = 11.51). We tested statistical mediation effects, using path analysis in structural equation modeling. Physical dissociat...
Avaliação Psicológica e Risco Suicidário: Algumas Notas Reflexivas
Campos, Rui C.Neste artigo, de natureza conceptual e reflexiva, começa por salientar-se que a avaliação do risco suicidário exige conhecimento teórico em suicidologia e que os comportamentos suicidários não são um fenómeno linear. Seguidamente, discute-se em torno do conceito de unacceptable loss thresholds. No tópico seguinte destaca-se a necessidade de uma, adequada formação e treino dos psicólogos, dada a dificuldade em a...
An exploratory study in the Portuguese population on writing a suicide note: Co...
Campos, Rui C.; Reixa, Cátia; Cardoso, Paulo; Passos, BrunaSuicide notes are an important warning sign for suicidal behaviors. The aim of this exploratory research is (a) to contribute to understanding the place of suicide notes in the spectrum of suicidal behaviors in Portugal, and (b) to analyze the content remembered by individuals regarding a suicide note. Two complementary studies were carried out. In the first, a quantitative investigation, the statistical relati...
Body Image and Suicidal Ideation in Portuguese Adolescents: The Mediating Effec...
Campos, Rui C.; André, AlexandreKeywords: Suicidal Ideation; Body Image; Adolescents; Internalized Psychopathology Objective: This study aims to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between body image and suicidal ideation in adolescents by testing a mediating effect of internalized psychopathology. Methods: A sample of 248 high school students (47.2% boys) aged between 15 and 20 years (8.4% ≥ 18) from a school cluster in Alent...
Body Image and Self-Harming Behaviors in Adolescents: The Mediating Effect of S...
Campos, Rui C.; Marmelo, Marta; Holden, Ronald R.In the present investigation, we used structural equation modeling with 251 adolescents to reveal, through path analyses, the degree to which somatization might mediate the relationships between body image and self-harming behaviors. After controlling for the effects of (a) age, (b) gender, and (c) having previously visited a psychologist, we observed that somatization fully mediated both the relationship betwe...
An analysis of the Painful and Provocative Events Scale: Some painful and provo...
Holden, Ro; Campos, Rui C.; D'Agata, MadeleineThis research investigated the latent structure and correlates of the 26-item Painful and Provocative Events Scale (PPES). For a sample of 290 community respondents, results from parallel analysis indicated a 5-factor structure. Based on principal axis factoring with varimax rotation, scales of Intense physicality, Physical and mental trauma, Physical risk taking, Psychopathy, and Body enhancement were construc...
Validation Studies of the Tolerance for Mental Pain Scale-10 (TMPS-10) for the ...
Campos, Rui C.; Martins, Luis C.; Passos, BrunaTolerance for psychological pain is a central construct in some perspectives about suicide. The aim of this research is to present validation studies of the Tolerance for Mental Pain Scale-10 (TMPS-10) for the Portuguese population. This instrument operationalizes two facets of tolerance for mental pain: managing the pain and enduring the pain. In the first study, involving a community sample of 437 individuals...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Portuguese adults’ psychopathological sy...
Campos, Rui C.; et al.BAC KGROUND: The impact of the pandemic on mental health has been demonstrated in several reports. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on multiple dimensions of psychopathology in Portuguese adults. We compare a pandemic sample assessed during the second lockdown in Portugal with a prepandemic sample. METH ODS: Participants provided socio-demographic and clinical inf...
Sexuality in Endometriosis: Preliminary Data on Pain Malevolence and Illness In...
Franco da Silva, Carolina; Gonçalves, Bruno; Campos, Rui C.Endometriosis has a major impact on women’s sexual health, lessening fertility and causing pain and reduced sexual desire in at least 50% of patients. This article investigates the relationship between infertility and sexual intercourse concerns and illness intrusiveness. Since both pain and illness can be interjected as malevolent internal objects, we also looked at the mediating effect of pain representation ...