Recent stressors and family satisfaction in suicidal adolescents in South Africa
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A brief biographical inventory with semi-structured interview format eliciting classical and social history was used to study 40 South African adolescents previously engaged in suicidal acts. Results show that 77.5% of the subjects were in conflict with their parents before resolving to self-destruction. Results also reveal that asignificant number of suicidal teens have higher levels of family dissatisfaction than control subjects. The view that suicidal behaviour is the means by which adolescents with dissatisfied family functioning communicate their distress was further supported.
Publication Name: Journal of Adolescence
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0140-1971
Year: 1997
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Adolescents from one parent, stepparent and intact families: emotional problems and suicide attempts
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The differences in emotional problems and suicidal behavior among adolescents from intact, one parent and stepparent families were analyzed. Results indicate that symptoms of loneliness and anxiety, depression, weak self-esteem, and suicidal thoughts and attempts were evident in adolescents from one parent and stepparent families. Boys from stepparent families elicited more emotional problems than boys from one parent families while girls from one parent families experience more emotional problems than girls from stepfamilies.
Publication Name: Journal of Adolescence
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0140-1971
Year: 1997
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Impact of attitudes and suicidal ideation on adolescents' intentions to see professional psychological help
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Seeking professional psychological help with regard to psychological distress is particularly pertinent to the youth population of New Zealand. A study aimed to identify factors that have the highest impact on professional psychological help-seeking amongst adolescents. Suicidal ideation, psychological distress, attitudes, gender, prior help-seeking and treatment fears were significant predictors. However higher rates of suicidal ideation resulted in lower levels of help seeking intentions for suicidal thoughts.
Publication Name: Journal of Adolescence
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0140-1971
Year: 2000
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