An Analysis of Adolescent Suicide Attempts: The Expendable Child
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Assessed the concept of the "expendable child" syndrome proposed by Sabbath (1969) as a contributing factor in adolescent suicide attempts. It was hypothesized that suicidal adolescents would be rated higher on a measure of "expendability" than would a psychiatric control group of adolescents with no known history of suicide attempts or ideation. Forty adolescents, ages 13-24, who had been seen in psychotherapy at a teen-age health clinic, were rated by their psychotherapists on suicidality and a 12-item scale of expendability (a sense of being unwanted and/or a burden on the family). As predicted, suicidal adolescents received significantly higher ratings on the expendability measure than nonsuicidal adolescents. Results support the concept that feeling expendable is a characteristic of suicidal adolescents. Implications for prevention and treatment of adolescent suicidality are discussed.
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Perceived expendability characterizes suicidal adolescents.
“Recall also that perceptions of expendability have been shown to characterize suicidal adolescents (Woznica & Shapiro, 1990).”
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Perceived expendability within the family correlates positively with suicidal behavior in adolescents.
“In a direct test of Sabbath’s theory, perceptions of expendability in the family were found to be positively correlated with suicidal behavior in adolescents (Woznica & Shapiro, 1990).”
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- Authors
- Woznica, J. G., & Shapiro, J. R.
- Affiliations
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- Woznica, Janet G.
- Venue
- Journal of Pediatric Psychology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1990
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 789-796
- ISSN
- 0146-8693 (ISSN-L)
- 1465-735X
- OpenAlex
- W2157336639
- Cited by
- 53
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Pediatric Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- adolescent suicide attempts, suicidal ideation, suicide prevention, adolescent suicidality
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Psychology, Adolescent, Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Psychotherapy, Surveys and Questionnaires, Self Concept, Suicide, Attempted
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