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© 2023 The Authors. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Association of Suicidology.Introduction: The current study explored whether camouflaging autistic traits is associated with defeat and entrapment and lifetime suicidal thoughts, as predicted by the Integrated Volitional Model of Suicide (IMV model). Methods: 180 UK undergraduate students (76.7% female 18–67 years) completed a cross-sectional online survey from February 5 to March 23, 2020, including self-report measures of defeat and entrapment (SDES), autistic traits (AQ-10), depression (PHQ-9), anxiety (GAD-7), camouflaging autistic traits (CAT-Q), and lifetime suicidal thoughts and behaviors (SBQ-R item 1). Results: After controlling for age, gender, current depression, and anxiety symptoms, autistic traits accounted for significantly more of the variance in defeat and entrapment (1.1%), and camouflaging accounted for a further 3.2% of the variance. The association between autistic traits and lifetime suicidality was significantly mediated by camouflaging, defeat, and entrapment. After controlling for age, gender, current depression, and anxiety symptoms, defeat and entrapment (but not camouflaging) accounted for significantly more variance in lifetime suicidal thoughts. The interaction between camouflaging, defeat and entrapment predicted significantly less variance in lifetime suicidal thoughts than either variable alone. Conclusion: Results suggest that camouflaging autistic traits is a transdiagnostic risk factor for lifetime suicidality, relevant to the defeat and entrapment constructs of the IMV model.
Author(s): Cassidy S, McLaughlin E, McGranaghan R, Pelton M, O'Connor R, Rodgers J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
Year: 2023
Volume: 53
Issue: 4
Pages: 572-585
Print publication date: 01/08/2024
Online publication date: 02/05/2023
Acceptance date: 18/04/2023
Date deposited: 23/05/2023
ISSN (print): 0363-0234
ISSN (electronic): 1943-278X
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12965
DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12965
Data Access Statement: The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available due to participants not consenting to the public sharing of data, but anonymized data are available from the corresponding author (SC) upon reasonable request.
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