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Advances in Psychology 心理学进展, 2016, 6(11), 1127-1136 Published Online November 2016 in Hans. /journal/ap /10.12677/ap.2016.611142 Risk Factors and Protective Factors of Suicide Ideation in College Students Qian Chen Department of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Ji’nan Shandong st th th Received: Oct. 21 , 2016; accepted: Nov. 8 , 2016; published: Nov. 11 , 2016 Copyright © 2016 by author and Hans Publishers Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access Abstract Suicide ideation refers to experiencing suicidal motivations; the individual has random thoughts or plans suicide, but without adopting external behavior for this purpose. A large body of re- searches have indicated suicide ideation is the important indicator of assessing the risk of suicide; therefore it is crucial for preventing the college students’ suicide behavior to study the risk and protective factors of suicide ideation. There are many risk factors for suicide ideation, mainly in- cluding biological factors, psychological factors and social environmental factors, such as perso- nality traits, despair, academic problems, etc.; whereas the studies of the suicide ideation’ protec- tive factors currently mainly cover the self-esteem and social supports. Most researchers are more concerned about the risk factors for suicide ideation, and only a few studies have focused on the protective factors of suicide ideation. Future research needs to focus more on the protection of suicidal ideation, the diversification of research methods and which fact