Parent-Child Relationships and Suicidal Ideation in French-Canadian Adolescents

Abstract

French-Canadian adolescent boys (n = 272) and girls (n = 286) participated in a study of the relationship between suicide ideation and selected familial variables. Results of a multivariate analysis indicate that suicide ideation in adolescent boys and girls is related to a parental child-rearing regime that is characterized by control and a lack of sufficient maternal and paternal social support.