Predicting Suicide Tendency Based on Self-Compassion and Psychological Flexibility in Married Women with MS

Multiple sclerosis is a debilitating disease that affects patients with a variety of problems, including reduced function, reduced life expectancy, and emotional and economic problems. For this purpose, the present study was conducted with the aim of predicting suicidal ideation based on self-compassion in married women with MS in Hamadan.

The present study was a descriptive correlational study and its statistical population was 153 women with MS in Hamadan who were selected by convenience sampling method and 110 people were selected and studied based on Krejcie and Morgan sampling table. Suicidal tendencies, self-compassion, and psychological resilience were assessed by Beck's Suicide Tendency (1979), Nef's Self-compassion (2003), and Bond & etal (2011) Psychological Flexibility Questionnaires. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient test using SPSS software version 25.

The value of r was -0.385 in the confidence level was more than 0.95 and this means that with increasing self-compassion of women, their suicidal tendency decreases.

Self-compassion and psychological flexibility had a negative effect on the tendency of women with MS to commit suicide, so developing appropriate psychological programs to increase psychological flexibility centered on self-compassion for these patients can be useful.