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Teenagers’ attitudes about coping strategies and help-seeking behavior for suicidality.

GOULD, MADELYN S., VELTING, DREW, KLEINMAN, MARJORIE, LUCAS, CHRISTOPHER, THOMAS, JOHN GRAHAM, CHUNG, MICHELLE·2004·Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

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Objective To identify youths' attitudes about coping and help-seeking strategies for suicidal ideation/behavior and examine their demographic and clinical correlates. Method A self-report survey was completed by high school students (N = 2,419) in six New York State schools from 1998 through 2001. The relationship between suicide attitudes and gender, depression, substance problems, serious suicidal ideation/behavior, and first-hand experience with a suicidal peer was examined. Results Two factors that approximate avoidance and approach coping responses, maladaptive coping strategies and help-seeking strategies, respectively, were identified. Boys scored higher than girls (t = 7.96, df = 2341, p < .001), and depressed youths (t = 15.56, df = 2323, p < .001), students with substance problems (t = 11.07, df = 2340, p < .001), and suicidal youths (t = 15.14, df = 2341, p < .001) scored significantly higher than their healthy counterparts on the maladaptive coping strategies factor. Students with first-hand experience with a suicidal peer scored significantly higher on the maladaptive coping strategies factor than those without this experience (t = 7.95, df = 2321, p < .001). Lower risk groups scored significantly higher on an adaptive help-seeking strategies factor. Conclusions High-risk adolescents' attitudes are characterized by core beliefs that support the use of maladaptive coping strategies in response to depression and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Targeting such attitudes is a recommended component of youth suicide prevention efforts.

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Authors: GOULD, M. S., VELTING, D., KLEINMAN, M., LUCAS, C., THOMAS, J. G., & CHUNG, M.
Affiliations: Novartis (United States) (US)
Corresponding author: GOULD, MADELYN S.
ORCID: GOULD, MADELYN S.
THOMAS, JOHN GRAHAM
Venue: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2004-09
Volume: 43
Issue: 9
Pages: 1124-1133
ISSN: 0890-8567 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1097/01.chi.0000132811.06547.31
OpenAlex: W2065641489
Cited by: 254
References: 60
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FWCI: 9.19
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
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Funders: National Institutes of Health (5r01mh052827-04)
National Institute of Mental Health (K02MH01298, R01MH52827)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
Keywords: suicidal ideation, suicidal behavior, adolescents, coping strategies, help-seeking, maladaptive coping, attitudes toward suicide, depression, problematic substance use, suicide prevention, gender differences
MeSH terms: Suicide Prevention, Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Attitude, Depressive Disorder, Female, Humans, Male, New York, Peer Group, Social Support, Statistics as Topic, Suicide, Suicide, Attempted, Comorbidity, Risk Assessment, Substance-Related Disorders

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