Key result
An ecological model of suicidal behavior among students with gifts and talents provides an explanation and framework for future research and prevention efforts.
Why the study?
Students with gifts and talents possess unique risk and protective factors for suicidal behavior that can lead toward psychache and imminent danger of suicide without intervention.
This paper proposes an ecological model to understand risk and protective factors for suicidal behavior in students with gifts and talents, providing a framework for future prevention efforts.
Offers a framework for suicide prevention in gifted students; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical adoption.
Some students with gifts and talents (SWGT) are among the thousands of youths who die by suicide every year, although there is no way to know how many. Research indicates they are not more likely to engage in suicidal behaviors than other students. They do have unique risk and protective factors, however. Risk factors can accumulate to outweigh protective factors, causing a downward trajectory toward psychache, a condition of intense psychological pain and hopelessness. Without intervention, SWGT suffering from psychache are in imminent danger of suicide. This paper outlines an ecological model of suicidal behavior among SWGT that provides an explanation and framework for future research and prevention efforts.
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Cross et al. (2020) conducted a review in Suicidal behavior among students with gifts and talents. An ecological model of suicidal behavior among students with gifts and talents provides an explanation and framework for future research and prevention efforts.
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