title: Assets as predictors of suicide attempts in African American inner-city youths.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess whether developmental assets and risk-taking behaviors, as measured by the Search Institute instrument, were related to attempted suicide in African American, inner-city youth.
  
  
  METHODS
  Survey of 336 African American, inner-city youths.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Significant odds ratios were found for 4 asset questions and for 11 risk-taking behavior questions by attempted suicide behavior. The odds ratios ranged from 2.4 to 6.4 in magnitude. The percent of variation in suicide-attempt behavior explained by the asset questions (14.6% and 19.6%) was explained by the risk-taking behavior/high-risk behavior pattern questions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The risk-taking behavior items were better predictors of suicide behavior than were the developmental asset items for the African American youth.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health and Rehabilitative Services, University of Toledo, OH 43606, USA. JPrice@utnet.utoledo.edu
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Price
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Dake
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kucharewski
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D015146:Midwestern United States; D012307:Risk Factors; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012944:Social Support; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D014505:Urban Population; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology