Romantic relationships can both attenuate and exacerbate suicide risk. Suicide prevention strategies in the United States have emphasized the importance of healthy connections with others; however, suicide prevention efforts overwhelmingly continue to focus on individual-level interventions. This presents a missed opportunity to prevent suicide through a focus on romantic relationship factors that are strongly associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. To identify underutilized or new avenues for improving suicide prevention, the current article aims to (a) provide an overview of the literature on romantic relationship functioning and suicide risk in adults to elucidate potential prevention targets, and (b) use a public health framework to highlight evidence-based and emerging avenues to prevent suicide by targeting relevant relationship factors.

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浪漫关系对于预防自杀的重要性

浪漫关系既可以降低也可以加剧自杀风险。美国的自杀预防策略强调与他人保持健康联系的重要性；然而，自杀预防工作绝大多数仍集中于个人层面的干预措施。这就错失了通过关注与自杀想法和行为密切相关的浪漫关系因素来预防自杀的机会。为了确定改善自杀预防的未充分利用或新途径，本文旨在 (a) 概述有关成人恋爱关系功能和自杀风险的文献，以阐明潜在的预防目标，以及 (b) 使用公共卫生框架强调通过针对相关关系因素来预防自杀的循证和新兴途径。