SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR IN ADOLESCENTS: Stress and Protection in Different Family Contexts

Recent suicidal behavior was reported on a questionnaire by 14% of 272 high school students. Two-thirds of the suicidal teenagers neither received help nor disclosed their self-harm to anyone. Depression and stress-especially family suicidality, feelings of violation, and sexuality-increased the ris...

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Veröffentlicht in:	American journal of orthopsychiatry 1998-04, Vol.68 (2), p.274-284
Hauptverfasser:	Rubenstein, Judith L, Halton, Antonia, Kasten, Linda, Rubin, Carol, Stechler, Gerald
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adolescents Adult and adolescent clinical studies Attempted Suicide Biological and medical sciences Factors Families & family life Family Family Characteristics Family Relations Family Stability Family Structure Female High School Students Human Humans Male Medical sciences Mental depression Mental stress New England Parental Characteristics Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data Protective Factors Psychological Stress Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychometrics Psychopathology. Psychiatry Questionnaires Risk Sexuality Social Support Stress Stress, Psychological - complications Suicidal behaviour Suicide Suicide - prevention & control Suicide - psychology Suicide - statistics & numerical data Suicide, Attempted - prevention & control Suicide, Attempted - psychology Suicide, Attempted - statistics & numerical data Suicides & suicide attempts Teenagers
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Zusammenfassung:	Recent suicidal behavior was reported on a questionnaire by 14% of 272 high school students. Two-thirds of the suicidal teenagers neither received help nor disclosed their self-harm to anyone. Depression and stress-especially family suicidality, feelings of violation, and sexuality-increased the risk, as did parental separation, divorce, and most dramatically, remarriage. Family cohesiveness helped alleviate the risk in the nonintact families.
ISSN:	0002-9432 1939-0025
DOI:	10.1037/h0080336