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 risk, as did parental separation, divorce, and most dramatically, remarriage. Family cohesiveness helped alleviate the risk in the nonintact families.
Rubenstein
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Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Mass., USA.
Halton
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Kasten
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Rubin
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Stechler
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D000293:Adolescent; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009511:New England; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D012306:Risk; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention