scholarly journals Suicidality, function and associated negative life events in an adolescent psychiatric population at 3-year follow-up

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kari Skulstad Gårdvik ◽  
Terje Torgersen ◽  
Marite Rygg ◽  
Stian Lydersen ◽  
Marit Sæbø Indredavik
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
School Dropout ◽  
Risk Difference ◽  
Global Assessment Scale ◽  
Psychiatric Population ◽  
Associated Risk Factors

Abstract Background We aimed to examine psychosocial function, suicidality and school dropout in a clinical psychiatric population over a 3-year period from adolescence to young adulthood and explore associations with negative life events. Methods This study is part of the Health Survey in Department of Children and Youth, St. Olavs hospital, Norway. In the first study visit (T1), 717 (43.5% of eligible) participated, aged 13–18 years (2009–2011), and 3 years later (T2), 570 answered a questionnaire (school functioning and negative life events), and 549 completed Kiddie SADS as telephone interview assessing DSM-IV diagnoses, psychosocial functioning and suicidality. Results Suicidal ideation was more frequent among girls (17.9%) than among boys (5.4%) (risk difference; RD = 12.5%, CI (7.2 to 17.7), p < 0.001), as was suicidal behavior (25.0% vs. 9.5%, RD = 15.5%, CI (9.2 to 21.4), p < 0.001). Girls had lower psychosocial functioning than boys (Children’s Global Assessment Scale; Mean score 68.2 vs. 75.2, Mean difference = − 7.0, CI (− 9.4 to − 4.7), p < 0.001), and more school dropout (22.5% vs. 13.2%, RD = 9.3%, CI (2.8 to 15.5), p = 0.006). For those with a psychiatric disorder, 24.8% of girls had suicidal ideation and 30.0% suicidal behavior, which was larger than for boys (RD = 18.0%, CI (10.8 to 24.7), p < 0.001, and RD = 18.3%, CI (10.2 to 25.8), p < 0.001, respectively). Exposure to negative life events was frequent for both genders, but more girls had experienced sexually uncomfortable or abusive situations, the last 3 years (23.5% vs. 2.9%, RD = 20.6%, CI (15.4 to 25.7), p < 0.001), and ever (44.4% vs. 7.9%, RD = 36.5%, CI (29.9 to 42.7), p < 0.001). Suicidal behavior was associated with having been threatened, physically harassed or violently hurt (RD = 16.7%, CI (9.5 to 23.9), p < 0.001), and for girls been put into sexually uncomfortable or abusive situations (RD = 20.1%, CI (10.4 to 29.9), p < 0.001) and seen others violently hurt (RD = 14.6%, CI (3.4 to 25.8), p = 0.011). Conclusions The high frequency of suicidality and school dropout confirms the severity of adolescent psychiatric disorders, especially among girls. Specific life events were associated risk factors and should be target points for prevention and intervention.

Worldviews and Individual Vulnerability to Suicide: The Role of Social Axioms

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 602-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben C. P. Lam ◽  
Michael Harris Bond ◽  
Sylvia Xiaohua Chen ◽  
Wesley C. H. Wu
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Social Axioms ◽  
Individual Vulnerability ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Cynicism

Research investigating the role of generalized beliefs about the world or worldviews is relatively scarce in the suicide literature. Two studies, using Hong Kong Chinese samples, examined how worldviews, as assessed by the Social Axioms Survey (SAS), were linked with individual vulnerability to suicide. In Study 1, we investigated the relationships of social axioms with various suicide indicators in cognitive, emotional and interpersonal domains, viz., suicidal ideation, negative self–esteem, psychache, burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness. Results from canonical correlation analysis showed that beliefs along the axiom dimensions of social cynicism, reward for application, and social complexity were linked to these suicide indicators. In Study 2, we tested the interplay of worldviews and personality traits in the prediction of suicidal thoughts. Hierarchical regression results demonstrated the predictive power of social axioms over and above that provided by the Big Five personality dimensions. Moreover, a significant interaction was observed between belief in reward for application and negative life events in predicting suicidal ideation, showing that reward for application buffered the effect of negative life events on suicidal ideation. Based on these results, we discussed the significance of worldviews as a consideration in suicide research and their implications for clinical assessment and intervention. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Negative life events and adolescent suicidal behavior: a critical analysis from the stress process perspective

1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonifacio Sandin ◽  
Paloma Chorot ◽  
Miguel A. Santed ◽  
Rosa M. Valiente ◽  
Thomas E. Joiner, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
Stress Process ◽  
Process Perspective

Stability amidst turmoil: Grit buffers the effects of negative life events on suicidal ideation

2015 ◽  
Vol 228 (3) ◽  
pp. 781-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan V. Blalock ◽  
Kevin C. Young ◽  
Evan M. Kleiman
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Negative Life Events

scholarly journals Suicidal Behavior and Stress Generation in Adolescents

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 488-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. Liu ◽  
Anthony Spirito
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Life Stress ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
Stress Generation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Lifetime Number ◽  
Stress Interview

Stress generation has potential to account for recurrent suicidal behavior. The current study represents a first step toward evaluating this possibility in a sample of adolescent psychiatric inpatients ( n = 99; 79.80% female) followed over 6 months. At index admission, participants completed baseline measures of depressive symptom severity, suicidal ideation, lifetime history of suicide attempts, and negative life events using a contextual threat life stress interview. Negative life events since baseline were assessed at the follow-up assessment. Consistent with the stress generation hypothesis, lifetime number of suicide attempts prospectively predicted higher rates of dependent but not independent stress. Bayesian analyses also yielded substantial support for an association with overall dependent stress but provided more modest support for specificity to this form of life stress relative to independent stress. Implications of these findings and directions for future research further clarifying the role of stress generation in suicidal behavior are discussed.

scholarly journals Positive and negative life events and reasons for living modulate suicidal ideation in a sample of patients with history of suicide attempts

2017 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 64-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camélia Laglaoui Bakhiyi ◽  
Isabelle Jaussent ◽  
Séverine Beziat ◽  
Renaud Cohen ◽  
Catherine Genty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
Reasons For Living ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals How Would Different Types of Negative Life Events Predict Adolescents’ Suicidal Ideation ? - an Empirical Study Based on the Western Region of China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moye Xin ◽  
Xueyan Yang ◽  
Kun Liu
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
Western China ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Different Types

Background: We attempted to find if there were gender differences in different types of Negative life events and Suicidal ideation among Chinese adolescents, then analyze the relationship between different types of Negative life events and Suicidal ideation among these young students. Methods: Based on the data from 6 middle-schools and 3 universities in 3 cities of Western China, the gender difference in different types of Negative life events and Suicidal ideation and their related factors were investigated and analyzed in the study. Results: Gender differences were found during different types of Negative life events and Suicidal ideation; Negative life events could predict the intensity of Suicidal ideation by gender, to some specific types. Conclusions: Negative life events were proved to be risk factors of adolescents&rsquo; Suicidal ideation regardless of different gender stereotypes, but the specific classification of negative life events which had significant impact on adolescents&rsquo; Suicidal ideation also indicated significant gender divisions. For males, negative life events of punishment and adaptation had a significant and boosting impact on their Suicidal ideation, the higher the scores of punishment and adaptation negative life events had, the greater intensity of male adolescents were to have Suicidal ideation. Thus, the above two types of negative life events may be the main stressors predicting male adolescents' Suicidal ideation; For females, in addition to punishment, other types of negative life events all had significant impacts on their Suicidal ideation, which can be treated as the main stressors to trigger female adolescents' Suicidal ideation; Additionally, parents&rsquo; marital status of remarriage and divorce were proved to be significant indicators to adolescents&rsquo; Suicidal ideation, the age variable was proved to be strongly correlated with Suicidal ideation among female adolescents.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document