title: An Integrated Model of Suicidal Ideation in Transcultural Populations of Chinese Adolescents.
abstract: This study tested the model of suicidal ideation, incorporating family and personal factors to predict suicidal ideation with hopelessness as a mediating factor in the Hong Kong sample, to a sample in Shanghai. Using MGSEM, the study aims to investigate the personal correlates and the family correlates of suicidal ideation in Hong Kong and Shanghai adolescents. We integrated the family ecological and diathesis-stress-hopelessness models of suicidal ideation in connecting the correlates. A cross-sectional design was used. The full model achieved metric invariance and partial path-loading invariance. Family functioning and social problem solving negatively predicted hopelessness or suicidal ideation in both the Hong Kong and Shanghai adolescents. The results supported an integrative approach in facilitating parent-adolescent communication and strengthening family functioning, and reducing the use of negative social problem-solving styles in adolescent suicide prevention.
authors: Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
authors: Cyrus L K
authors: CL
authors: Leung
authors: Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. scyckwok@cityu.edu.hk.
authors: Sylvia Y C L
authors: SY
authors: Kwok
authors: School of Social Sciences, Caritas Institution of Higher Education, New Territories, Hong Kong.
authors: Chloe C Y
authors: CC
authors: Ling
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002681:China; D003469:Culture; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006213:Hallucinogens; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010287:Parent-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012307:Risk Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D006213:Hallucinogens
keywords: Chinese adolescents; Emotional competence; Family functioning; Hopelessness; Social problem solving; Suicidal ideation