Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ647681
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2002
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An Ecological Risk-Factor Examination of Suicide Ideation and Behavior of Adolescents.
Perkins, Daniel F.; Hartless, Glen
Journal of Adolescent Research, v17 n1 p3-26 Jan 2002
Identified risk factors related to suicidal behavior in European American and African American adolescents. For males in both groups, risk factors for suicidal ideation and behavior were found at individual, family, and extrafamilial levels of social ecology. For females, the same factors occurred for suicidal attempts but not suicidal thoughts. (DLH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Blacks, Child Abuse, Depression (Psychology), Drinking, Drug Use, Educational Environment, Emotional Problems, Family Influence, Grade 11, Grade 7, Grade 9, Negative Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Influence, Religious Factors, Risk, Self Injurious Behavior, Sex Differences, Sexual Abuse, Social Environment, Social Isolation, Suicide, Surveys
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Michigan
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