"The Walls Were Closing in, and We Were Trapped": A Qualitative Analysis of Street Youth Suicide

Autor/in	Kidd, Sean A.
Titel	"The Walls Were Closing in, and We Were Trapped": A Qualitative Analysis of Street Youth Suicide
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 36 (2004) 1, S.30-55 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X03261435
Schlagwörter	Youth; Suicide; Interviews; Foreign Countries; Psychological Patterns; Drug Abuse; Homeless People; Canada; Canada (Toronto); Canada (Vancouver) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Selbstmord; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Ausland; Homeless person; Homeless persons; Obdachloser; Kanada
Abstract	Semistructured interviews focusing on suicide were conducted with 80 street youth in agencies and on the streets of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Participants described their understandings of the phenomenon of suicide among street youth and the meanings suicide held for them. Qualitative analysis of the interviews revealed themes of worthlessness, loneliness, hopelessness, and most centrally the feeling of being "trapped" as forming the construct of suicide held by the participants. These idioms of distress were situated within the context of a street life that included social stigma and drug abuse. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10