Rui C Campos
Biographic Data
| ID | 3882389 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rui C Campos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rui C |
| FAMILY NAME | Campos |
| SIGNATURE | CAMPOS R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Évora |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1085-7732 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Writing a suicide note: Testing the effects of childhood trauma and psychache
Using a cross-sectional design, this study examined the relationship between childhood trauma and the writing of a suicide note as well as the mediation and moderation effects of psychache (i.e., psychological pain) on this relationship. A non-clinical sample of 1012 young adults aged 17 to 29 years ( M = 19.56; SD = 1.94; 3.7% > 25 years) participated. A mediation model was tested using path analysis through structural equation modeling, and a m…
An analysis of the Painful and Provocative Events Scale: Some painful and provocative findings
This research investigated the latent structure and correlates of the 26-item Painful and Provocative Events Scale (PPES). For a sample of 290 community respondents, results from parallel analysis indicated a 5-factor structure. Based on principal axis factoring with varimax rotation, scales of Intense physicality, Physical and mental trauma, Physical risk taking, Psychopathy, and Body enhancement were constructed, and these demonstrated a patter…
The Mediating Role of Tolerance for Psychological Pain in the Relationship Between Different Types of Childhood Traumatic Experiences and Suicidal Ideation
The aim of the present research was to evaluate the mediating effects of facets of the tolerance for psychological pain on the relationship between childhood trauma and suicidal ideation. A sample of 437 community individuals and a sample of 316 college students participated. For the community sample, managing the pain mediated the relationship between childhood trauma, the different types of traumatic experiences and suicidal ideation. In the co…
Results from Two Countries on How Thwarted Interpersonal Needs Contribute to Understanding Self-Harm
Self-harming behavior (SHB) represents an important public health issue and is one of the most critical predictors of completed death by suicide. The current study evaluated the incremental contribution of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide constructs of thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness for the prediction of SHB beyond that associated with having a psychiatric diagnosis. Community adults from two different countries included a…
Factor structure and proposed scoring revision of the Three-Dimensional Psychological Pain Scale
The development of psychometrically sound measures to assess mental pain are important because research has consistently demonstrated a robust relationship to suicide risk. The current research evaluated the Three-Dimensional Psychological Pain Scale (TDPPS) structure, a suicide-relevant measure intended to articulate pain into affective, cognitive, and behavioral facets. As the first Western study to evaluate the TDPPS structure with non-Chinese…
The multidimensionality of suicide risk factors and criteria in a nonclinical population: Replication across two countries and two languages
Across two countries and two languages, this research examined the multidimensional associations between suicidality (e.g., past ideation/attempts, communication of intent) and empirically important psychological risk factors (e.g., mental pain, perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness). For samples of 228 Canadian and 331 Portuguese university undergraduates, four dimensions emerged in each sample with two of these, intrapersonal and int…
Psychache, unmet interpersonal needs, childhood trauma and suicide ideation in young adults
This 5-month, 2-wave study evaluated the mediating effects of psychache and unmet interpersonal needs on the relationship between childhood trauma and suicide ideation in 208 young adults, controlling for depression. Path analysis demonstrated that changes in depression, perceived burdensomeness, and thwarted belongingness mediated the relationship between childhood trauma and changes in positive suicide ideation, and that changes in depression a…
Representações das figuras parentais e dor psicológica: Um estudo exploratório
O objectivo deste estudo de cariz exploratório é testar, em adultos da comunidade, a relação entre representações das figuras parentais e dor psicológica. A amostra final é constituída por 164 participantes, com idades entre os 18 e os 65 anos, que responderam à Psychache Scale e ao Inventário para Aceder às Memórias de Infância Relativas às Práticas Parentais (EMBU) e, realizaram uma descrição livre de cada uma das figuras parentais. Estas descr…
Dimensionality of Suicide Behaviors: Results within Two Samples from Two Different Countries
Across two countries and two languages, this research examined the multidimensional associations of suicide behaviors (i.e., life-time attempts, life-time communication of intent to others, life-time self-harming, life-time suicide notes, and current suicide ideation) and empirically relevant psychological risk factors (i.e., different facets of mental pain, perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, and acquired capability), controlling f…
Psychological pain and suicidal ideation in undergraduates: The role of pain avoidance
In the present study, the first with a Western sample, we tested the relationship between three dimensions of psychological pain and suicidal ideation in a sample of 331 Portuguese college students. When controlling for the effect of depressive symptoms, the avoidance dimension, but not the cognitive and affective dimensions of psychological pain, made a significant contribution in predicting the three indicators of suicidal ideation. According t…
Assessing psychache as a suicide risk variable: Data with the Portuguese version of the psychache scale
Several studies have consistently related psychological pain to suicide risk. Psychache, according to Shneidman's perspective and measured by the Psychache Scale has been confirmed as an important variable in risk prediction. In the present study, we evaluated psychache as a construct related to suicide risk using data obtained with the Portuguese version of the Psychache Scale translated from the original English version. A community sample of 6…
The associations between the maladaptive personality dimensions of neediness and self-criticism, defense styles, selfobject needs, and attachment styles in an Iranian sample
The present study extends previous findings by examining whether defense styles, selfobject needs, attachment styles relate to Neediness and Self-Criticism, as maladaptive personality dimensions focused, respectively, on relatedness and self-definition in an Iranian sample. Three hundred and 52 participants completed a sociodemographic questionnaire as well as the Persian forms of the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire, Experience of Close Rela…
O relacionamento e a auto-definição de acordo com a perspectiva de Sidney Blatt: Conceptualização e implicações clínicas
Este trabalho de natureza teórica pretende apresentar o modelo de Sidney Blatt e discutir em torno de algumas das suas implicações clínicas. O artigo está organizado em diferentes secções. Começamos por abordar a conceptualização do autor sobre a depressão, de seguida descrevemos a sua proposta sobre o desenvolvimento da personalidade e os dois estilos de personalidade que concebeu, anaclítico e introjectivo. De seguida referimo-nos às estruturas…
Parental rejection, personality, and depression in the prediction of suicidality in a sample of nonclinical young adults
This study tested a prediction model of suicidality in a sample of young adults. Predictor variables included perceived parental rejection, self-criticism, neediness, and depression. Participants (N 5 165) responded to the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire,theInventoryforAssessingMemoriesofParentalRearingBehavior, theCenterforEpidemiologicalStudiesDepressionScale,andtheSuicideBehaviors Questionnaire—Revised. Perceived parental rejection, perso…
Perceção de acontecimentos de vida negativos, depressão e risco de suicídio em jovens adultos
Este trabalho teve como objetivo testar dois modelos de previsão do risco de suicídio que assumem que a depressão medeia a relação entre a frequência de acontecimentos de vida percebidos como negativos e o risco de suicídio e a intensidade dos acontecimentos de vida percebidos como negativos e o risco de suicídio. Foi controlado o efeito da idade e do género dos participantes. Os dados foram recolhidos em dois momentos diferentes com um intervalo…
Testing a Theory-Based Model of Suicidality in a Community Sample
The aim of the present study is to test a theory-based model of suicide in a low-risk nonclinical sample. A community sample of convenience of 200 adults, 102 men and 98 women, responded to the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire, the Center for the Epidemiologic Studies of Depression Scale, the Psychache Scale, the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire, and the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire Revised. The hypothesized structural equation model, inc…
Does psychache mediate the relationship between general distress and suicide ideation
This study evaluated whether psychache (i.e., mental pain) mediates the association between general distress, assessed as the frequency and the intensity of psychological symptoms in the previous week, and suicide ideation in community adults. For a sample of 202 adults, psychache fully mediated the relationship between suicide ideation and the frequency of psychological symptoms, and partially mediated the relationship between suicide ideation a…
Self-report depressive symptoms do not directly predict suicidality in nonclinical individuals: Contributions toward a more psychosocial approach to suicide risk
Although suicidality is associated with mental illness in general and depression in particular, many depressed individuals do not attempt suicide and some individuals who attempt to or do die by suicide do not present depressive symptoms. This article aims to contribute to a more psychosocial approach to understanding suicide risk in nonclinical populations. In advocating a psychosocial perspective rather than a depression-focused approach, this …
Suicidal Ideation and Distress in Family Members Bereaved by Suicide in Portugal
The present study assessed the impact of suicide and distress on suicidal ideation in a sample of 93 Portuguese family members bereaved by suicide. A control community sample of 102 adults also participated. After controlling for educational level, those bereaved by the suicide of a family member were found to have higher levels of suicidal ideation. Forty-two percent of family members had Suicide Ideation Questionnaire scores at or above the cut…
Conceptualization and preliminary validation of a depressive personality concept
This paper proposes a depressive personality organization—a unique set of traits. It proposes a psychodynamic and psychiatric operationalization and reports on a preliminary validation through the construction of a questionnaire and the investigation of its psychometric properties in three nonclinical samples and a clinical sample of depressed patients. Preliminary results support the validity of the instrument and the underlying theoretical conc…
Síntese dos aspectos centrais da perspectiva teórica de Sidney Blatt sobre a depressão
Neste artigo apresentamos os aspectos centrais da perspectiva teórica de Sidney Blatt sobre a depressão. Expomos alguns aspectos gerais do seu modelo, as características dos dois tipos depressivos propostos por Blatt, algumas notas sobre o desenvolvimento das representações objectais e sobre os antecedentes da depressão e expomos ainda a componente de vulnerabilidade multi-causal do modelo de Blatt. Terminamos com algumas considerações finais
Adaptação do Questionário de Experiências Depressivas (de Sidney Blatt e colegas) para a população portuguesa
No presente trabalho apresentamos os estudos levados a cabo para adaptar o Questionário de Experiências Depressivas (Q.E.D.) de Sidney Blatt e colegas para a população portuguesa. Iniciamos o artigo comum a breve exposição dos aspectos centrais da conceptualização de Sidney Blatt sobre a depressão. Descrevemos depois a versão original do Q.E.D. e as suas propriedades psicométricas. Posteriormente apresentamos o processo de tradução do instrumento…
Processo gravídico, parto e prematuridade: Uma discussão teórica do ponto de vista do psicólogo
Este trabalho apresenta a gravidez segundo a conceptualização de alguns autores, como um período de crise maturacional, onde ocorre um processo de desenvolvimento psicológico por fases, ao longo dos três trimestres, com objectivos e tarefas psíquicas definidas. Hipotetizamos que perturbações, como uma paragem ou bloqueio, nesse processo de desenvolvimento gravídico, poderão resultar na ocorrência do parto prematuro, e que o prosseguir do processo…
The relationships between defenses and experiences of depression: An exploratory study
This study examined the relationships between defenses and depressive expe-riences. Two questionnaires, in counterbalanced order, were administered to a community sample of 205 adults: the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire
Additional Psychometric Data for a Portuguese Scale to Assess History of Depressive Symptomatology with a Community Sample
The Depressive History Questionnaire is shown to have a single factor and acceptable internal consistency reliability in a sample of 205 community participants
Does psychache mediate the relationship between general distress and suicide ideation
This study evaluated whether psychache (i.e., mental pain) mediates the association between general distress, assessed as the frequency and the intensity of psychological symptoms in the previous week, and suicide ideation in community adults. For a sample of 202 adults, psychache fully mediated the relationship between suicide ideation and the frequency of psychological symptoms, and partially mediated the relationship between suicide ideation a…
Self-report depressive symptoms do not directly predict suicidality in nonclinical individuals: Contributions toward a more psychosocial approach to suicide risk
Although suicidality is associated with mental illness in general and depression in particular, many depressed individuals do not attempt suicide and some individuals who attempt to or do die by suicide do not present depressive symptoms. This article aims to contribute to a more psychosocial approach to understanding suicide risk in nonclinical populations. In advocating a psychosocial perspective rather than a depression-focused approach, this …
Psychological pain and suicidal ideation in undergraduates: The role of pain avoidance
In the present study, the first with a Western sample, we tested the relationship between three dimensions of psychological pain and suicidal ideation in a sample of 331 Portuguese college students. When controlling for the effect of depressive symptoms, the avoidance dimension, but not the cognitive and affective dimensions of psychological pain, made a significant contribution in predicting the three indicators of suicidal ideation. According t…
Assessing psychache as a suicide risk variable: Data with the Portuguese version of the psychache scale
Several studies have consistently related psychological pain to suicide risk. Psychache, according to Shneidman's perspective and measured by the Psychache Scale has been confirmed as an important variable in risk prediction. In the present study, we evaluated psychache as a construct related to suicide risk using data obtained with the Portuguese version of the Psychache Scale translated from the original English version. A community sample of 6…
Preliminary Psychometric Data for a Portuguese Scale to Assess History of Depressive Symptomatology with a College Student Sample
A Portuguese questionnaire was developed to assess the history of depressive symptoms. The Depressive History Questionnaire was based on the Depressive Experience Subscale from the Thalbourne Manic Depressiveness Scale, which was translated into Portuguese. The Depressive History Questionnaire was administered to 459 college students. Female students scored significantly higher than male students. Cronbach alpha was .64. Principal component analy…
Additional Psychometric Data for a Portuguese Scale to Assess History of Depressive Symptomatology with a Community Sample
The Depressive History Questionnaire is shown to have a single factor and acceptable internal consistency reliability in a sample of 205 community participants
The relationships between defenses and experiences of depression: An exploratory study
This study examined the relationships between defenses and depressive expe-riences. Two questionnaires, in counterbalanced order, were administered to a community sample of 205 adults: the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire
Síntese dos aspectos centrais da perspectiva teórica de Sidney Blatt sobre a depressão
Neste artigo apresentamos os aspectos centrais da perspectiva teórica de Sidney Blatt sobre a depressão. Expomos alguns aspectos gerais do seu modelo, as características dos dois tipos depressivos propostos por Blatt, algumas notas sobre o desenvolvimento das representações objectais e sobre os antecedentes da depressão e expomos ainda a componente de vulnerabilidade multi-causal do modelo de Blatt. Terminamos com algumas considerações finais
Adaptação do Questionário de Experiências Depressivas (de Sidney Blatt e colegas) para a população portuguesa
No presente trabalho apresentamos os estudos levados a cabo para adaptar o Questionário de Experiências Depressivas (Q.E.D.) de Sidney Blatt e colegas para a população portuguesa. Iniciamos o artigo comum a breve exposição dos aspectos centrais da conceptualização de Sidney Blatt sobre a depressão. Descrevemos depois a versão original do Q.E.D. e as suas propriedades psicométricas. Posteriormente apresentamos o processo de tradução do instrumento…
Processo gravídico, parto e prematuridade: Uma discussão teórica do ponto de vista do psicólogo
Este trabalho apresenta a gravidez segundo a conceptualização de alguns autores, como um período de crise maturacional, onde ocorre um processo de desenvolvimento psicológico por fases, ao longo dos três trimestres, com objectivos e tarefas psíquicas definidas. Hipotetizamos que perturbações, como uma paragem ou bloqueio, nesse processo de desenvolvimento gravídico, poderão resultar na ocorrência do parto prematuro, e que o prosseguir do processo…
Conceptualization and preliminary validation of a depressive personality concept
This paper proposes a depressive personality organization—a unique set of traits. It proposes a psychodynamic and psychiatric operationalization and reports on a preliminary validation through the construction of a questionnaire and the investigation of its psychometric properties in three nonclinical samples and a clinical sample of depressed patients. Preliminary results support the validity of the instrument and the underlying theoretical conc…
Suicidal Ideation and Distress in Family Members Bereaved by Suicide in Portugal
The present study assessed the impact of suicide and distress on suicidal ideation in a sample of 93 Portuguese family members bereaved by suicide. A control community sample of 102 adults also participated. After controlling for educational level, those bereaved by the suicide of a family member were found to have higher levels of suicidal ideation. Forty-two percent of family members had Suicide Ideation Questionnaire scores at or above the cut…
Parental rejection, personality, and depression in the prediction of suicidality in a sample of nonclinical young adults
This study tested a prediction model of suicidality in a sample of young adults. Predictor variables included perceived parental rejection, self-criticism, neediness, and depression. Participants (N 5 165) responded to the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire,theInventoryforAssessingMemoriesofParentalRearingBehavior, theCenterforEpidemiologicalStudiesDepressionScale,andtheSuicideBehaviors Questionnaire—Revised. Perceived parental rejection, perso…
Perceção de acontecimentos de vida negativos, depressão e risco de suicídio em jovens adultos
Este trabalho teve como objetivo testar dois modelos de previsão do risco de suicídio que assumem que a depressão medeia a relação entre a frequência de acontecimentos de vida percebidos como negativos e o risco de suicídio e a intensidade dos acontecimentos de vida percebidos como negativos e o risco de suicídio. Foi controlado o efeito da idade e do género dos participantes. Os dados foram recolhidos em dois momentos diferentes com um intervalo…
Testing a Theory-Based Model of Suicidality in a Community Sample
The aim of the present study is to test a theory-based model of suicide in a low-risk nonclinical sample. A community sample of convenience of 200 adults, 102 men and 98 women, responded to the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire, the Center for the Epidemiologic Studies of Depression Scale, the Psychache Scale, the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire, and the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire Revised. The hypothesized structural equation model, inc…
Does psychache mediate the relationship between general distress and suicide ideation
This study evaluated whether psychache (i.e., mental pain) mediates the association between general distress, assessed as the frequency and the intensity of psychological symptoms in the previous week, and suicide ideation in community adults. For a sample of 202 adults, psychache fully mediated the relationship between suicide ideation and the frequency of psychological symptoms, and partially mediated the relationship between suicide ideation a…
Self-report depressive symptoms do not directly predict suicidality in nonclinical individuals: Contributions toward a more psychosocial approach to suicide risk
Although suicidality is associated with mental illness in general and depression in particular, many depressed individuals do not attempt suicide and some individuals who attempt to or do die by suicide do not present depressive symptoms. This article aims to contribute to a more psychosocial approach to understanding suicide risk in nonclinical populations. In advocating a psychosocial perspective rather than a depression-focused approach, this …
The associations between the maladaptive personality dimensions of neediness and self-criticism, defense styles, selfobject needs, and attachment styles in an Iranian sample
The present study extends previous findings by examining whether defense styles, selfobject needs, attachment styles relate to Neediness and Self-Criticism, as maladaptive personality dimensions focused, respectively, on relatedness and self-definition in an Iranian sample. Three hundred and 52 participants completed a sociodemographic questionnaire as well as the Persian forms of the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire, Experience of Close Rela…
O relacionamento e a auto-definição de acordo com a perspectiva de Sidney Blatt: Conceptualização e implicações clínicas
Este trabalho de natureza teórica pretende apresentar o modelo de Sidney Blatt e discutir em torno de algumas das suas implicações clínicas. O artigo está organizado em diferentes secções. Começamos por abordar a conceptualização do autor sobre a depressão, de seguida descrevemos a sua proposta sobre o desenvolvimento da personalidade e os dois estilos de personalidade que concebeu, anaclítico e introjectivo. De seguida referimo-nos às estruturas…
Assessing psychache as a suicide risk variable: Data with the Portuguese version of the psychache scale
Several studies have consistently related psychological pain to suicide risk. Psychache, according to Shneidman's perspective and measured by the Psychache Scale has been confirmed as an important variable in risk prediction. In the present study, we evaluated psychache as a construct related to suicide risk using data obtained with the Portuguese version of the Psychache Scale translated from the original English version. A community sample of 6…
Representações das figuras parentais e dor psicológica: Um estudo exploratório
O objectivo deste estudo de cariz exploratório é testar, em adultos da comunidade, a relação entre representações das figuras parentais e dor psicológica. A amostra final é constituída por 164 participantes, com idades entre os 18 e os 65 anos, que responderam à Psychache Scale e ao Inventário para Aceder às Memórias de Infância Relativas às Práticas Parentais (EMBU) e, realizaram uma descrição livre de cada uma das figuras parentais. Estas descr…
Dimensionality of Suicide Behaviors: Results within Two Samples from Two Different Countries
Across two countries and two languages, this research examined the multidimensional associations of suicide behaviors (i.e., life-time attempts, life-time communication of intent to others, life-time self-harming, life-time suicide notes, and current suicide ideation) and empirically relevant psychological risk factors (i.e., different facets of mental pain, perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, and acquired capability), controlling f…
Psychological pain and suicidal ideation in undergraduates: The role of pain avoidance
In the present study, the first with a Western sample, we tested the relationship between three dimensions of psychological pain and suicidal ideation in a sample of 331 Portuguese college students. When controlling for the effect of depressive symptoms, the avoidance dimension, but not the cognitive and affective dimensions of psychological pain, made a significant contribution in predicting the three indicators of suicidal ideation. According t…
The multidimensionality of suicide risk factors and criteria in a nonclinical population: Replication across two countries and two languages
Across two countries and two languages, this research examined the multidimensional associations between suicidality (e.g., past ideation/attempts, communication of intent) and empirically important psychological risk factors (e.g., mental pain, perceived burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness). For samples of 228 Canadian and 331 Portuguese university undergraduates, four dimensions emerged in each sample with two of these, intrapersonal and int…
Psychache, unmet interpersonal needs, childhood trauma and suicide ideation in young adults
This 5-month, 2-wave study evaluated the mediating effects of psychache and unmet interpersonal needs on the relationship between childhood trauma and suicide ideation in 208 young adults, controlling for depression. Path analysis demonstrated that changes in depression, perceived burdensomeness, and thwarted belongingness mediated the relationship between childhood trauma and changes in positive suicide ideation, and that changes in depression a…
Factor structure and proposed scoring revision of the Three-Dimensional Psychological Pain Scale
The development of psychometrically sound measures to assess mental pain are important because research has consistently demonstrated a robust relationship to suicide risk. The current research evaluated the Three-Dimensional Psychological Pain Scale (TDPPS) structure, a suicide-relevant measure intended to articulate pain into affective, cognitive, and behavioral facets. As the first Western study to evaluate the TDPPS structure with non-Chinese…
Results from Two Countries on How Thwarted Interpersonal Needs Contribute to Understanding Self-Harm
Self-harming behavior (SHB) represents an important public health issue and is one of the most critical predictors of completed death by suicide. The current study evaluated the incremental contribution of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide constructs of thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness for the prediction of SHB beyond that associated with having a psychiatric diagnosis. Community adults from two different countries included a…
The Mediating Role of Tolerance for Psychological Pain in the Relationship Between Different Types of Childhood Traumatic Experiences and Suicidal Ideation
The aim of the present research was to evaluate the mediating effects of facets of the tolerance for psychological pain on the relationship between childhood trauma and suicidal ideation. A sample of 437 community individuals and a sample of 316 college students participated. For the community sample, managing the pain mediated the relationship between childhood trauma, the different types of traumatic experiences and suicidal ideation. In the co…
An analysis of the Painful and Provocative Events Scale: Some painful and provocative findings
This research investigated the latent structure and correlates of the 26-item Painful and Provocative Events Scale (PPES). For a sample of 290 community respondents, results from parallel analysis indicated a 5-factor structure. Based on principal axis factoring with varimax rotation, scales of Intense physicality, Physical and mental trauma, Physical risk taking, Psychopathy, and Body enhancement were constructed, and these demonstrated a patter…
Psychology (21 works) · Clinical Psychology (17 works) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (16 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Poison control (11 works) · Suicide prevention (10 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (9 works) · Medical emergency (9 works)