@article{ref1,
title="Reasons for adolescent suicide attempts: associations with psychological functioning",
journal="Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry",
year="1998",
author="Boergers, J. and Spirito, Anthony and Donaldson, D.",
volume="37",
number="12",
pages="1287-1293",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To determine reasons for suicide attempts in adolescents and to examine the relationship between these reasons and psychological functioning. METHOD: Self-reported reasons for suicide attempts and psychological functioning were examined in 120 adolescent suicide attempters who presented to a pediatric general hospital. RESULTS: Consistent with prior research, the most frequently endorsed motives for self-harm were to die, to escape, and to obtain relief. More manipulative reasons for overdose (such as making people sorry) were endorsed less frequently. Adolescents who cited death as a reason for their suicide attempt reported more hopelessness, socially prescribed perfectionism, depression, and anger expression. Discriminant function analyses indicated that high levels of depression and anger expression predicted a self-reported wish to die, and high levels of depression and socially prescribed perfectionism predicted death as the primary reason reported for the suicide attempt. CONCLUSIONS: Systematic assessment of the reasons for a suicide attempt is a useful tool for clinicians in determining recommendations for follow-up treatment.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0890-8567",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}