Category: Health and Mental Health

Without question, the largest void when considering the role of mattering in suicide is at the explanatory level. Why and how do feelings of not mattering come to play a role in suicide? These questions are considered in the next segment of this chapter in an attempt to address the current void in the published…

Mattering is unique in terms of psychological constructs because it is, in essence, a part of the self that is based on reflected appraisals of the self (i.e., our perceptions of how much other people regard us). Also, it is rooted in interpersonal relation-ships, so it is very much as social-cognitive construct. Rosenberg and McCullough…

Mattering and Feelings of Not Mattering in Suicide Risk and Prevention: Conceptualization, Review, and Public Health Recommendations The theme “You Matter” is arguably one of the most important public health mes-sages in existence when it comes to understanding and preventing mental health problems. The national suicide prevention program in the United States focused on youth…

Besides the innate qualities described in the “5-C” model (Martin & Marsh, 2006), academic resilience may also be influenced by external factors such as social sup-port within the individuals’ social environment (Permatasari et al., 2021). For exam-ple, positive social support from friends has been shown to act as a buffer for students under stress (Wilks…

Impact of Online Learning Experience During COVID-19: Exploring the Relationship Between Academic Resilience, Academic Self-Efficacy, and Perceived Social Support The COVID-19 pandemic, one of the worst global health crises of this century, has dramatically transformed the lives, functioning, and behaviors of university stu-dents. After Singapore went into lockdown on April 7, 2020, universities were forced…

Life satisfaction is a cognitive evaluation of an individual’s overall life status; in other words, it is an estimation of how much an individual likes his life (Erikson, 1980). The concept of life satisfaction denotes the overall evaluation of life, which contrasts with the “subjective well-being” in response to a person’s current feelings or specific…

Below, we briefly consider what we have learned thus far about loneliness in terms of key implications from an applied perspective. There is a clear need for loneliness prevention, and Crowe and associates (2022), among others, have emphasized the key role of the public health system; they outlined myriad ways of proactively addressing loneliness and…

What internal thoughts reflect unbearable loneliness? We are conducting a line of investigation centered on the premise that loneliness is accompanied by distress due to the tendency to experience frequent automatic thoughts about being and feeling lonely. That is, extreme loneliness can reflect an internal world reflecting Sadler’s (1978) contention that loneliness is an intensely…

Our focus in the current chapter on unbearable loneliness stems from the realization that there is an extreme form of loneliness, which is felt as truly unbearable and is the type of loneliness that is not receiving sufficient attention in terms of research, practice, and prevention. We propose that it is essential that we begin…

When a construct is linked broadly with various mental health problems and associ-ated interpersonal problems, as is the case with loneliness, it is safe to assume a role for the self, in terms of its content, structure, and cognitive processing. We maintain that focus on the self and identity should be the starting point when…