Correlates of suicidal ideation among rural adolescents.
This study examined potential predictors of suicidal ideation among a nonclinical, rural adolescent population. A sample of 76 male and female adolescents enrolled in a rural public high school completed a personal information form, a suicide information questionnaire, short forms of the Beck Depression Inventory and the Family Environment Scale, and the Life Events Checklist. A stepwise multiple regression suggested significant predictive relationships between magnitude of suicidal ideation and measures of family social climate (i.e., Organization, Conflict, Expressiveness, and Independence subscales from the Family Environment Scale--Short Form). Multivariate analyses of variance and a discriminant-function analysis revealed no significant sex differences.
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Department of Psychology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion 57069.
Yutrzenka
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D000293:Adolescent; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D010556:Personality Tests; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*