title: Risk factors for suicide in Taiwanese college students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors investigated the personality characteristics, psychopathology, parenting style, and family function among Taiwanese college students with high, moderate, and low suicidal risks.
  
  
  METHODS
  The sample included 2,919 first-year college students (1,414 men, 1,505 women) from a university in Taipei, Taiwan.
  
  
  METHODS
  A self-administered questionnaire assessed domains covering demographics, personality, psychopathology, frequency of substance use, parenting style, family functioning, and suicidal behaviors. The authors used mixed models for data analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The authors observed a positive linear trend between increased suicidal tendency and levels of neuroticism, harm avoidance, novelty seeking, psychopathology, and parenting styles of low affection, overprotection, and authoritarian controlling. Use of tobacco and alcohol and impaired family adaptation and cohesion were associated with high and moderate suicidal risks.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Personality, psychopathology, substance use, and familial factors are important correlates of suicidal risks among college students in Taiwan. Optimal suicide prevention strategies in the college setting should incorporate the multiple facets of suicidal risks.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. gaushufe@ntu.edu.tw
authors.forename: Susan Shur-Fen
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Gau
authors.forename: Ying-Yeh
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Fang-Ju
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: Ming-Been
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Yen-Nan
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Chiu
authors.forename: Wei-Tsuen
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Soong
authors.forename: Hai-Gwo
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Hwu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D013624:Taiwan; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult