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The Relationship Between Seriously Considering, Planning, and Attempting Suicide in the Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Author(s) -
Perez Victor W.
Publication year - 2005
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.35.1.35.59267
Subject(s) - normative , poison control , suicide prevention , human factors and ergonomics , injury prevention , psychology , trajectory , suicidal behavior , occupational safety and health , medicine , medical emergency , philosophy , physics , epistemology , pathology , astronomy
The assumed ordinal relationship between seriously considering, planning, and attempting suicide in the 1999 Youth Risk Behavior Survey was examined by constructing a trajectory that identified all possible response patterns among the four questions measuring suicidal activity. Statistical analysis tested for differences in frequency of risk behaviors across levels of the trajectory. Overall, the trajectory provided insight to the progression of adolescent suicidal activity and demonstrated usefulness as a measure of suicidal intent. Significant differences between means of dependent variables at each level of the normative trajectory supported the hypothesis that frequency of risk behaviors increases monotonically with successive suicidal thought and behavior.