Multiple Pathways from Stress to Suicidality and the Protective Effect of Social Support in Hong Kong Adolescents

Autor/inn/en	Cheng, Sheung-Tak; Chan, Alfred C. M.
Titel	Multiple Pathways from Stress to Suicidality and the Protective Effect of Social Support in Hong Kong Adolescents
Quelle	In: Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 37 (2007) 2, S.187-196 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0363-0234
DOI	10.1521/suli.2007.37.2.187
Schlagwörter	Structural Equation Models; Family Influence; Depression (Psychology); Suicide; At Risk Persons; Family Relationship; Adolescents; Foreign Countries; Social Environment; Stress Variables; Psychological Patterns; Substance Abuse; Death; Attitudes; Correlation; Predictor Variables; Social Influences; Coping; Stress Management; Prevention; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Selbstmord; Risikogruppe; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Ausland; Soziales Umfeld; Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Korrelation; Prädiktor; Sozialer Einfluss; Bewältigung; Stressmanagement; Stressbewältigung; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Hongkong
Abstract	Two theoretical models were constructed to illustrate how stressful events, family and friends support, depression, substance use, and death attitude mutually influence to create cumulative risks for suicide. The models were evaluated using structural equation modeling. Results showed that suicidality was strongly predicted by death attitude, depression, and substance use which together form a dangerous combination of risk factors at the personal level. Within the adolescent's social environment, stressful events increased suicidality through intensifying depression, substance use, and death acceptance, whereas family and friends support lowered it, partly through reducing stress and death acceptance. The effect (direct and indirect combined) of family support was much stronger than that of friends support. Enhancing stress coping ability, promoting positive family relationships, and attacking attitudes supportive of death might be the best strategies to prevent youth suicide. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10