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Suicide is a tragic and complex public health problem that affects individuals, families, and communities. The current study aimed to predict suicidal ideation based on cognitive emotion regulation strategies, perceived social support, self-efficacy, perfectionism, and spiritual health in students at Ilam universities, Ilam, Iran.

The current study was a cross-sectional study conducted in 2021. A total of 463 working students studying in Ilam universities were selected and included in the study through the available sampling method. A questionnaire was used for data collection. To determine the relationship between the variables and suicidal thoughts, the Pearson correlation test was used, and to investigate the predictors associated with suicidal thoughts, stepwise regression analysis was performed.

The research results showed a significant negative relationship between the variables of perceived social support, self-efficacy, spiritual health, and positive emotion regulation strategies (i.e., acceptance, positive reorientation, planning, positive appraisal, and underestimation) and a significant positive relationship between perfectionism variables and negative emotion regulation strategies (i.e., self-blame, rumination, catastrophizing, and blaming others) with suicidal thoughts. The highest correlation coefficient was related to perceived social support, which was the most important predictive variable in this study (r=-0.71). Perceived social support, existential health, rumination, perfectionism, self-efficacy, self-blame, and acceptance variables were able to become significant as predictive variables in the regression equation. In total, these factors explained 66% of the variance of suicidal thoughts.

Based on the research findings, the variables of cognitive emotion regulation strategies, perceived social support, self-efficacy, perfectionism, and spiritual health may be important components and predictors of suicidal thoughts. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to these components in suicide prevention programs and treatment and counseling methods

The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of positive psychotherapy and Self-Review on well-being and resilience among students as mothers. The study sample was consisted of twenty seven students of Alzahra University, who were mothers as well..They were selected through convenience sampling, and were randomly assigned to three self-review, positive psychotherapy and control groups. The data were measured using two questionnaires: Subjective Well-Being Questionnaire (RSPWB-SF) and Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA) in three phases of pretest, posttest and follow up. For the first group experimental,the positive psychotherapy was administered in seven sessions and for the second group, self-reviewtherapy was provided in six sessions. The control group has received no intervention. The data was analyzed by descriptive statistic and multivariate covariance method. The results indicated that mean scores of subjective well-being in post-test and follow-up were significantly increased in self- review and Positive Psychotherapy groups compared to control group. But resilience was not significant. Accordingly, the findings suggested that self-review and positive psychotherapy interventions had a significant effect on increasing the well-being of mothers. However, there was no significant difference between the two methods in terms of effectiveness on subjective well-being. These results can be construed as an evidence for using positive psychotherapy or self-review in psychological well-being for students as mothers.