Suicidal Ideation and Distress among Immigrant Adolescents: The Role of Acculturation, Life Stress, and Social Support

Autor/inn/en	Cho, Yong-Beom; Haslam, Nick
Titel	Suicidal Ideation and Distress among Immigrant Adolescents: The Role of Acculturation, Life Stress, and Social Support
Quelle	In: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39 (2010) 4, S.370-379 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2891
DOI	10.1007/s10964-009-9415-y
Schlagwörter	Prevention; Suicide; Adolescents; Foreign Countries; Immigrants; High School Students; Emotional Disturbances; Role; Acculturation; Social Support Groups; Stress Variables; Korean Americans; Comparative Analysis; Parents; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Parent Child Relationship; Family Structure; South Korea + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Prävention; Vorbeugung; Selbstmord; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Ausland; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Gefühlsstörung; Rollen; Akkulturation; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Eltern; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Korea; Republik
Abstract	Acculturative stress and social support play important roles in suicide-related phenomena among adolescent immigrants. To examine their contributions, measures of acculturative and general life stress and a measure of multiple sources of social support were used to predict psychological distress and suicidal ideation among Korean-born high school students residing in the US. Korean students who were sojourning without both parents were compared to Korean students who immigrated with both parents, Korean students who remained in Korea, and American high school students in the US (total N = 227; 56.8% female). The sojourning group reported higher levels of life stress, distress, psychological symptoms, and suicidal ideation than the other groups. Within the two acculturating groups, levels of distress, symptoms, and suicidal ideation were associated with life stress, lack of parental support, and not living with both parents. The findings have important implications for suicide prevention among immigrant adolescents, and imply that parental support is particularly protective. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10