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Activity Involvement Among Suicidal and Nonsuicidal High‐Risk and Typical Adolescents
Author(s) -
Mazza James J.,
Eggert Leona L.
Publication year - 2001
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 - 10.1521/suli.31.3.265.24251
Subject(s) - suicide risk , psychology , dropout (neural networks) , suicide prevention , school dropout , youth risk behavior survey , clinical psychology , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , injury prevention , medicine , environmental health , machine learning , socioeconomics , sociology , computer science
The purpose of this study was to compare weekly activities among four groups of randomly selected high‐risk and typical high school students: (1) potential dropouts at suicide risk, (2) typical youth at suicide risk, (3) potential dropouts not at suicide risk, and (4) typical youth not at suicide risk. Of the 1,286 participants, 39.4% of the high‐risk and 30.1% of typical high school students screened in at suicide risk. Weekly activity comparisons across the four groups showed that suicide‐risk adolescents, regardless of potential dropout status, engaged in more solitary activities on weekdays and weekends than did their nonsuicide risk peers. High‐risk potential dropout youth engaged in less homework and more social activities during weekdays and weekends than did the typical high school students. These results provide important insight into the weekly activity involvement of at‐risk youth while helping to gain a better understanding of suicide‐risk adolescents. Implications of these findings are discussed for identifying youth at risk for suicidal behavior and for prevention programming.