The Association between School Staff's Coping Strategies Following a Student's Suicide, School Climate, and Previous Experience with Suicide

Autor/inn/en	Fire, Noa Tiech; Alkalay, Sarit; Gvion, Yari; Zalsman, Gil
Titel	The Association between School Staff's Coping Strategies Following a Student's Suicide, School Climate, and Previous Experience with Suicide
Quelle	In: Psychology in the Schools, 60 (2023) 8, S.2639-2656 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Alkalay, Sarit)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-3085
DOI	10.1002/pits.22898
Schlagwörter	Coping; Educational Environment; Suicide; Teacher Attitudes; Principals; Administrator Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Counselor Attitudes; School Psychologists; At Risk Persons; Emotional Adjustment; Teacher Student Relationship; Students; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bewältigung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Selbstmord; Lehrerverhalten; Principal; Schulleiter; Ausland; School psychologist; Psychologists; School; Schools; Schulpsychologe; Schulpsychologin; Psychologe; Psychologin; Psychologen; Schule; Risikogruppe; Emotionale Anpassung; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Student; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin
Abstract	This article examines whether and to what extent school climate and previous experience of attempted suicide or suicide of someone close, affect the strategies adopted by Israeli school staff members in coping with a student's suicide. Participants included 84 homeroom teachers, principals, counselors, and psychologists who work at schools where a student had died by suicide during the five preceding years. Our findings show that optimal school climate predicts elevated levels of overall coping strategies and higher problem-focused strategies. Additionally, staff members who previously experienced suicide or attempted suicide of a close person exhibit lower levels of coping strategies, in general, and of emotion-focused strategies in particular. Thus, they can be considered a risk group for less adaptive adjustment following a student's suicide. Finally, previous incidents of suicide or attempted suicide of a close person do not moderate the link between optimal school climate and coping strategies. Thus, optimal school climate has a robust and positive effect on school staff's coping abilities and hence may be considered a protective factor for the risk group we identified, namely school staff who had previous experience of someone close who attempted suicide or died by suicide. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01