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Correlates of Suicidal Ideation among Rural Adolescents
Author(s) -
Meneese William B.,
Yutrzenka Barbara A.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1990.tb00105.x
Subject(s) - suicidal ideation , psychology , checklist , family environment scale , clinical psychology , discriminant function analysis , scale (ratio) , population , depression (economics) , multivariate analysis of variance , poison control , suicide prevention , psychiatry , demography , medicine , environmental health , geography , machine learning , computer science , economics , cognitive psychology , macroeconomics , cartography , sociology
This study examined potential predictors of suicidal ideation among a nonclinical, rural adolescent population. A sample of 76 male and female adolescents enrolled in a rural public high school completed a personal information form, a suicide information questionnaire, short forms of the Beck Depression Inventory and the Family Environment Scale, and the Life Events Checklist. A stepwise multiple regression suggested significant predictive relationships between magnitude of suicidal ideation and measures of family social climate (i.e., Organization, Conflict, Expressiveness, and Independence subscales from the Family Environment Scale—Short Form). Multivariate analyses of variance and a discriminant‐function analysis revealed no significant sex differences.