TY - JOUR
T1 - Parental Displacement and Adolescent Suicidality
T2 - Exploring the Role of Failed Belonging
AU - Timmons, Katherine A.
AU - Selby, Edward A.
AU - Lewinsohn, Peter M.
AU - Joiner, Thomas E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded, in part, by National Institute of Mental Health grant F31MH081396 to Edward A. Selby, under the sponsorship of Thomas E. Joiner, Jr. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Mental Health or the National Institutes of Health. We also thank R. Jay Turner for the allowing the use of his data for this study.
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - Prior studies have demonstrated that events causing displacement from parents-such as parental death, abandonment of the adolescent, or divorce-represent a risk factor for adolescent suicide, but research to date has not established a theoretical model explaining the association between parental displacement and adolescent suicidal behavior. The current studies examined the construct of failed belonging proposed by the interpersonal theory of suicide as one factor that may link parental displacement with adolescent suicide. Study 1 found that low levels of belonging mediated the association between parental displacement and adolescent suicide attempts in a large, urban community sample of older adolescents between the ages of 18 and 23. In Study 2, parental displacement interacted with low belonging to predict suicide attempts, such that adolescents (average age = 16.6 years; SD = 1.2) who experienced both displacement and low levels of belonging had the highest risk for suicide.
AB - Prior studies have demonstrated that events causing displacement from parents-such as parental death, abandonment of the adolescent, or divorce-represent a risk factor for adolescent suicide, but research to date has not established a theoretical model explaining the association between parental displacement and adolescent suicidal behavior. The current studies examined the construct of failed belonging proposed by the interpersonal theory of suicide as one factor that may link parental displacement with adolescent suicide. Study 1 found that low levels of belonging mediated the association between parental displacement and adolescent suicide attempts in a large, urban community sample of older adolescents between the ages of 18 and 23. In Study 2, parental displacement interacted with low belonging to predict suicide attempts, such that adolescents (average age = 16.6 years; SD = 1.2) who experienced both displacement and low levels of belonging had the highest risk for suicide.
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U2 - 10.1080/15374416.2011.614584
DO - 10.1080/15374416.2011.614584
M3 - Article
C2 - 22023272
AN - SCOPUS:84859320260
SN - 1537-4416
VL - 40
SP - 807
EP - 817
JO - Journal of clinical child psychology
JF - Journal of clinical child psychology
IS - 6
ER -