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Difficulties in emotion regulation partially mediate the positive relationship between childhood trauma and suicidal ideation among female high school students. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To evaluate a structural equation model testing whether difficulties in emotion regulation mediate the link between childhood trauma and suicidal ideation in female high school students.

August 22, 2026BMC PsychiatryOpen Access

Developing a model of suicidal ideation in female high school students based on childhood trauma: the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties

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EDEsmaeil Sadri DamirchiUniversity of Mohaghegh Ardabili MHMohammadreza Noroozi HomayoonUniversity of Mohaghegh Ardabili MNMohamad Hatami NejadUniversity of Tehran

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Cross-sectional study uncovers emotion regulation difficulties mediating childhood trauma and suicidal ideation in female students, highlighting targets for school interventions.

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To evaluate a structural equation model testing whether difficulties in emotion regulation mediate the link between childhood trauma and suicidal ideation in female high school students.
Conducted a cross-sectional study among N=400 female high school students in Tehran during the 2024–2025 academic year, sampled via multi-stage cluster random sampling.
Assessed participants using the Beck Suicide Ideation Questionnaire (BSI), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-Short Form (DERS-SF), and Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ).
Analyzed direct and mediated pathways using Pearson correlation and structural equation modeling in SPSS and AMOS.
Childhood trauma was directly associated with suicidal ideation (β = 0.22, p < .001) and emotion regulation difficulties (β = 0.74, p < .001).
Emotion regulation difficulties strongly predicted suicidal ideation (β = 0.69, p < .001) and partially mediated the trauma-ideation link (indirect effect = 0.51, 95% CI [0.455, 0.647], p < .001).
The final model explained 75% of the variance in suicidal ideation with favorable fit indices (χ²/df = 2.112, CFI = 0.987, RMSEA = 0.06).

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Damirchi et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a898131ca7ade938187f358 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-026-08530-y

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Cross-sectional study uncovers emotion regulation difficulties mediating childhood trauma and suicidal ideation in female students, highlighting targets for school interventions.

Developing a model of suicidal ideation in female high school students based on childhood trauma: the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties

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Developing a model of suicidal ideation in female high school students based on childhood trauma: the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties

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