Predicting Suicide Ideation Based on Cognitive Emotion Regulation Mediated by Thwarted Belongingness among Adolescents

Introduction: Suicide is a significant social phenomenon that can jeopardize the mental health of a society.In other words, the rate of suicide and suicide attempts can be considered as one of the most important indicators of individuals' mental health in a society.This research aimed to examine and predict suicidal ideation based on cognitive emotion regulation through the mediation of thwarted belongingness in adolescents.Method: This research used descriptive and correlational methods.To carry out the present study, 230 female students of the second secondary school in Tehran in the academic year of 2014-2016 were selected through convenience sampling.Three questionnaires, Beck's suicidal thoughts, Garnevsky and Kraich's cognitive regulation of emotions, and the interpersonal needs questionnaire were used to collect the data required for this research.After collecting the data, the hypotheses and the proposed research model were analyzed using SPSS and Amos software.Findings: The results of the present study showed that positive and negative emotional regulation has a negative and positive effect on neutral belongingness, respectively, and neutral belongingness has a positive effect on suicidal thoughts.The overall model's evaluation indicators are in a favorable range.Discussion : Although negative emotion regulation and positive emotion regulation were not able to directly predict suicidal ideation, indirectly and with the mediation of neutral belongingness, they predicted suicidal ideation.Therefore, the variable of neutral belonging has a mediating role in the relationship between positive emotion regulation, negative emotion regulation, and suicidal ideation of students.