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. 2023 Sep 1:16:3519-3530.
doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S426363. eCollection 2023.

Psychotic-Like Experiences and Suicidal Ideation Among Adolescents: The Chain Mediating Role of Insomnia Symptoms and Resilience

Xi Luo  1   2   3 , Taowen Yu  4 , Zilu Yang  5 , Dongfang Wang  6
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Psychotic-Like Experiences and Suicidal Ideation Among Adolescents: The Chain Mediating Role of Insomnia Symptoms and Resilience

Xi Luo et al. Psychol Res Behav Manag. .

Abstract

Background: Individuals who experience psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) are at significant risk of suicide-related behaviors. This two-wave longitudinal study aimed to investigate the relationships among PLEs, insomnia symptoms, resilience, and suicidal ideation (SI) among adolescents.

Methods: A total of 2231 college students [mean age (standard deviation) = 20.02 (1.39) years] completed two web-based surveys. Participants completed self-report measures of sample characteristics, PLEs, insomnia symptoms, resilience, and SI.

Results: The findings indicated a significantly positive correlation between PLEs and SI that was sequentially mediated by insomnia symptoms and resilience. Furthermore, insomnia symptoms and resilience played a chain-mediating role between PLEs and adolescent SI.

Conclusion: These findings suggest potential mechanism for the PLEs-SI link, which helps us better understand how PLEs can influence individual SI and provides important information for early prevention.

Keywords: adolescents; insomnia symptoms; psychotic-like experiences; resilience; suicidal ideation.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest in this work.

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Standardized path coefficients (95% confidence intervals) for the mediating model.
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