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Psychol."],"abstract":"<jats:sec><jats:title>Background<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study aimed to explore the developmental trajectories of suicide risk among college students and examine the influence of demographic, psychological, and social factors on these trajectories.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>A three-year follow-up study was conducted with 3,723 first-year college students from a university in Guangdong Province, China. Data were collected in October 2020, 2021, and 2022 using the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised (SBQ-R), University Personality Inventory (UPI), and Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS). Latent Growth Mixed Modeling (LGMM) was employed to analyze the trajectories of suicide risk.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Three distinct trajectories were identified: a \u201cslowly decreasing suicide risk group\u201d (81.1%), a \u201cslowly increasing suicide risk group\u201d (15.7%), and a \u201crapidly increasing suicide risk group\u201d (3.2%). Female gender, left-behind experience, history of suicide among close relatives or acquaintances, positive psychological symptoms, and depressive symptoms were significant risk factors for higher suicide risk trajectories (all <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt;\u202f0.05).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The findings highlight significant heterogeneity in suicide risk trajectories among college students, emphasizing the need for targeted interventions based on individual risk profiles.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2025.1584446","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,6]],"date-time":"2025-06-06T11:17:18Z","timestamp":1749208638000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Developmental trajectories of suicide risk in college students: a three-year Latent Growth Mixed Model study"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Liu","family":"Zhuojun","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Liu","family":"Mian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhang","family":"Zhifang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chen","family":"Zhuangyou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"324","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jad.2023.02.112","article-title":"Suicide ideation among Brazilian college students: relationship with academic factors, mental health, and sexual abuse","volume":"329","author":"Altavini","year":"2023","journal-title":"J. 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