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Suicidal behavior in adolescents: Stress and protection in different family contexts.
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1998
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Psychological Co-morbiditiesFamily SuicidalityDifferent Family ContextsAdolescent Behavioral HealthMental HealthSocial SciencesPsychologyYouth Mental HealthSuicidal TeenagersSuicidal BehaviorFamily RelationshipsTeen Mental HealthRecent Suicidal BehaviorPsychiatryDepressionAdolescent PsychologyPsychosocial ResearchPsychosocial IssueSuicideFamily PsychologyMedicinePsychopathology
Recent suicidal behavior was reported on a questionnaire by 14% of 272 high school students. Two-thirds of the suicidal teenagers neither received help nor disclosed their self-harm to anyone. Depression and stress--especially family suicidality, feelings of violation, and sexuality--increased the risk, as did parental separation, divorce, and most dramatically, remarriage. Family cohesiveness helped alleviate the risk in the nonintact families.