The Interpersonal Theory of Suicide in Autistic and Non-autistic Adults, 2019

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This dataset comprises 752 participant records of autistic, possibly autistic and non-autistic people who were invited via online survey to complete measures of thwarted belonging and perceived burdensomeness (the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire-10), suicidal capability (the Acquired Capability for Suicide Scale-Fearlessness About Death), lifetime trauma (the Vulnerabilities Experience Quotient), anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7) and depression (Patient Healthcare Questionnaire-9) with demographic data including age, gender identity, living and employment status, other neurodevelopmental conditions and mental health difficulties.Autistic adults die more often by suicide than people who are not autistic and there is an absence of effective support for autistic people who experience suicidal thoughts and behaviours. One limiting factor is a lack of theoretically driven research to provide detailed insight into mechanisms driving suicide amongst autistic people. One research priority identified by the autism community is to explore the extent to which existing models of suicide describe the experiences of autistic people. Thus, this set of studies aims to explore this with reference to the most widely cited suicide theory, the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide (Joiner 2005).

Data was collected via online self-report measures in an online survey.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-856639
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=fc482d85f0ed1edf312c5d964813a7f4c20023b91344809533870da5c9121603
Provenance
Creator Pelton, M, Coventry University; Crawford, H, University of Warwick; Robertson, A, University of Glasgow; Bul, K, Coventry University; Rodgers, J, Newcastle University; Baron-Cohen, S, University of Cambridge; Cassidy, S, University of Nottingham
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2023
Funding Reference Coventry University
Rights Mirabel Pelton, Coventry University; The Data Collection is available for download to users registered with the UK Data Service. All requests are subject to the permission of the data owner or his/her nominee. Please email the contact person for this data collection to request permission to access the data, explaining your reason for wanting access to the data, then contact our Access Helpdesk.
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Resource Type Numeric
Discipline Psychology; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Data gathered via online survey; United Kingdom; United States