Citation

King CA, Raskin A, Gdowski CL, Butkus M, Opipari L. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 1990; 29(2): 289-294.

Affiliation

Dept. of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109-0704.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2324070

Abstract

This study identified psychosocial factors that differentiated 19 adolescent female suicide attempters from 21 demographically similar nonattempters in a low income, urban area. Adolescents and their parents independently completed questionnaires and participated in structured and semistructured interviews. Attempters expressed significantly higher levels of suicidal ideation and were described by their parents as displaying higher levels of depressed mood and delinquent behavior problems than nonattempters. Attempters also identified fewer support persons, were less likely to be living with their mothers, were less likely to describe confiding relationships with parents/guardians, and had less active and affectionate relationships with mother figures than nonattempters. Finally, attempters reported more undesirable life stresses than nonattempters.

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