Suicidal behavior in "normal" adolescents: risk and protective factors.
Risk and protective factors were examined in suicidal and nonsuicidal public high school students. With life stress and depression as independent risk factors, family cohesion was found to offset the effect of stress, and friendships to have a more indirect effect. Differential effects of ten sources of stress were analyzed from a developmental perspective, and the probability of suicidal behavior associated with clusters of factors was estimated for the general population.
Rubenstein
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Department of Child Psychiatry and Child Development, Boston University Medical School.
Heeren
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Housman
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Rubin
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Stechler
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D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012307:Risk Factors; D012944:Social Support; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention