The association between school staff's coping strategies following a student's suicide, school climate, and previous experience with suicide

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作者
Fire, Noa Tiech [1 ]
Alkalay, Sarit [2 ,8 ]
Gvion, Yari [3 ]
Zalsman, Gil [4 ,5 ,6 ,7 ]
机构
[1] Minist Educ, Jerusalem, Israel
[2] Yezreel Valley Acad Coll, Dept Psychol, Emek Yezreel, Israel
[3] Bar Ilan Univ, Dept Psychol, Ramat Gan, Israel
[4] Geha Mental Hlth Ctr, Petach Tikwa, Israel
[5] Tel Aviv Univ, Sackler Fac Med, Tel Aviv, Israel
[6] Columbia Univ, Div Mol Imaging & Neuropathol, Dept Psychiat, New York, NY USA
[7] New York State Psychiat Inst & Hosp, New York, NY USA
[8] Max Stern Yezreel Valley Acad Coll, Dept Psychol, IL-1930600 Emek Yezreel, Israel
关键词
school climate; school staff; student suicide; POSTTRAUMATIC-STRESS-DISORDER; QUALITY-OF-LIFE; COMPLICATED GRIEF; IMPACT; GROWTH; TEACHERS; PTSD; BEREAVEMENT; DEPRESSION; COMMUNITY;
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10.1002/pits.22898
中图分类号
G44 [教育心理学];
学科分类号
0402 ; 040202 ;
摘要
This article examines whether and to what extent school climate and previous experience of attempted suicide or suicide of someone close, affect the strategies adopted by Israeli school staff members in coping with a student's suicide. Participants included 84 homeroom teachers, principals, counselors, and psychologists who work at schools where a student had died by suicide during the five preceding years. Our findings show that optimal school climate predicts elevated levels of overall coping strategies and higher problem-focused strategies. Additionally, staff members who previously experienced suicide or attempted suicide of a close person exhibit lower levels of coping strategies, in general, and of emotion-focused strategies in particular. Thus, they can be considered a risk group for less adaptive adjustment following a student's suicide. Finally, previous incidents of suicide or attempted suicide of a close person do not moderate the link between optimal school climate and coping strategies. Thus, optimal school climate has a robust and positive effect on school staff's coping abilities and hence may be considered a protective factor for the risk group we identified, namely school staff who had previous experience of someone close who attempted suicide or died by suicide.
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页码:2639 / 2656
页数:18
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