We examined two structural equation models of international students’ suicidal ideation using data from 595 international students in two public universities in the United States. The models represented competing hypotheses about the relationships among discrimination, cross-cultural loss, academic distress, thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness, and suicidal ideation. The findings indicated there were direct, positive links between discrimination, cross-cultural loss, and academic distress to perceived burdensomeness; a direct, positive link between perceived burdensomeness and suicidal ideation; and indirect, positive links between discrimination, cross-cultural loss, and academic distress to suicidal ideation via perceived burdensomeness. The only predictors that related to thwarted belongingness were cross-cultural loss and academic distress, and there were no indirect links to suicidal ideation via thwarted belongingness. In fact, with all other variables in the model, thwarted belongingness was unrelated to suicidal ideation. Finally, academic distress was directly related to suicidal ideation. We discuss implications of the findings.

我们使用来自美国两所公立大学的595名国际学生的数据，研究了国际学生自杀意念的两个结构方程模型。这些模型代表了关于歧视，跨文化流失，学术困境，挫败归属感，感知负担和自杀观念之间关系的相互竞争的假设。调查结果表明，歧视，跨文化流失和学业困扰与感知负担之间存在直接的积极联系；所感觉到的负担感和自杀意念之间存在直接，积极的联系；歧视，跨文化流失和学术压力与通过自杀带来的自杀念头之间的间接积极联系。与受挫归属感有关的唯一预测因素是跨文化的丧失和学术苦恼，并且通过受挫归属感与自杀观念没有间接联系。实际上，在模型中的所有其他变量中，受挫的归属感与自杀意念无关。最后，学业困扰与自杀观念直接相关。我们讨论了发现的含义。