Emotional Distress and Substance Abuse as Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts

Overholser, James C.; Freiheit, Stacy R.; DiFilippo, Julia M.

doi:10.1177/070674379704200407

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“…The risk is increased when depression is associated with drug use, hopelessness, low selfesteem, passive coping style, social maladjustment, or family stress. Some authors posit as risk factors for suicide attempts, mental disturbances, family factors, and interpersonal factors (Kandel et al, 1991;Hawton et al, 1993;Overholser et al, 1997). A model (Fig.…”

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Adolescent's Suicide Attempts: Populations at Risk, Vulnerability, and Substance Use

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Laget

et al. 2003

Substance Use & Misuse

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Adolescence corresponds to a transition period that requires adaptation and change capacities and skills. Most young people succeed with this challenge, whereas a minority fail. In order to identify with the teenage culture, become autonomous, and differentiate from their parents, some adolescents choose to use drugs, beginning with the use of cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, followed by other illicit drugs such as opiates and stimulants. A high proportion of these adolescents attempt suicide, which is the primary cause of death during adolescence in many European countries. Who are the "vulnerable" adolescents? What are the mechanisms that can explain the varieties of drug-use initiation or suicide attempts? Can "protective factors" be identified? What kind of strategies might be developed at a social and political level in order to prevent or to minimize drug abuse and suicide attempts, among other harmful behaviors? These issues will be discussed on the basis of the recent literature and in the light of a recent study carried out in the French-speaking part of Switzerland on large cohorts of adolescent drug users. Unresolved critical issues are noted and future needed research is suggested.

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Section: Adolescent Suicide Attempts 1655mentioning

confidence: 99%

Adolescent's Suicide Attempts: Populations at Risk, Vulnerability, and Substance Use

Bolognini

Plancherel

Laget

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Substance Use & Misuse

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“…Factors that may protect adolescents from emotional difficulties include family connection (Wolman et al, 1994), parental support (Freeman, 2004;Bushnik, 2005) and having a strong network of friends (Bushnik, 2005) or a strong self-concept (Park, 2003). Emotional health in adolescents is important, as emotional problems are associated with short-term health consequences (such as suicide attempts) and life-long adult health conditions (Birmaher et al, 1996;Overholser et al, 1997).…”

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Emotional health of Canadian and Finnish students with disabilities or chronic conditions

Boyce¹,

Davies

Raman

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International Journal of Rehabilitation Research

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the dimensions of emotional health in two population-based groups (Finland and Canada) of adolescents (ages 13 and 15 years) who self-identify as having a disability or chronic condition, as conceptualized by the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. Data from the 2002 WHO Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey were used to compare the prevalence of emotional health (items on feeling low, feeling nervous) within and between countries. Eighteen percent of the Canadian and Finnish samples indicated they had a long-time disability, illness or medical condition. Canadian adolescents with disability or chronic conditions felt low significantly more frequently than their classmates without disability or chronic conditions. In both countries, students with disabilities who had more than one functional difficulty were significantly more likely to report feeling low and nervous. These results illustrate that the severity of disability as measured by the number of functional difficulties, and not merely the presence of disability or chronic condition, or particular functional difficulties, may play an important role in the emotional health of adolescents. Health promotion programs may use this information to guide practice to support the emotional health of students with disabilities.

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“…In previous studies this form of anger expression was related with suicidality [46]. Previous results have also related depression with suicidality in adolescents and young adults [47,48]. For example, Konick and Gutierrez [47] found in a sample of 345 college students that depression was the most important variable in the prediction of suicidal ideation.…”

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Testing a Model of Suicidality in Community Adolescents: A Brief Report

Campos

Mesquita²

2014

J Child Adolesc Behav

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We tested a theory-based model of suicidality in adolescents that included the variables: self-criticism, dependency, anger-temperament, depression and anger-in. A sample of 263 adolescents, 107 boys and 156 girls, aged between 15 and 19 years (M=16.8 , SD=1.26), from two high schools in the district of Évora, Portugal, responded to a socio-demographic questionnaire, to the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire for Adolescents (Blatt et al.), the Center for the Epidemiologic Studies of Depression Scale (Radloff), the State -Trait Anger Expression Inventory (Spielberger) and the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire -Revised (Osman et al.). The model tested by Structural Equation Modeling fits the data well. Self-criticism, dependency and anger-temperament demonstrated indirect relationships with suicidality and depression presented a direct relationship with suicidality and tended to relate indirectly with suicidality through anger-in.

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Emotional Distress and Substance Abuse as Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts

Cited by 47 publications

References 82 publications

Adolescent's Suicide Attempts: Populations at Risk, Vulnerability, and Substance Use

Adolescent's Suicide Attempts: Populations at Risk, Vulnerability, and Substance Use

Emotional health of Canadian and Finnish students with disabilities or chronic conditions

Testing a Model of Suicidality in Community Adolescents: A Brief Report

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