Peer Deviance, Social Networks, and Suicide Ideation Intensity in a Clinical Sample of Adolescents

Abbott, Caroline H.; Zisk, Abigail; Bounoua, Nadia; Diamond, Guy; Kobak, Roger

doi:10.1007/s10826-018-01320-5

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“…Suicidal ideation and communication have been mainly associated with depression and especially to depression-anxiety comorbidity as a sign of loneliness grows, which can be severe in young people [19]. From an interpersonal perspective, it is important that research shows significant relationships between different interpersonal factors (e.g., poor social support, relationship quality, peer victimization, social rejection, isolation) and suicide behaviors [75][76][77] (hypothesis e).…”

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“…Symptoms that have strong impact on the structure of the network are more related to comorbidity [35]; "fears school," "feels unloved," and "talks about suicide" are the three nodes that could warn of a greater risk of comorbidity and, therefore, of severity and dysfunction. This increases in importance when considering the associations between depression and poor school attendance, particularly absenteeism and unexcused absences/truancy [20], and the fact that adolescents who associate with deviant peers are more likely to report a greater intensity (increased frequency and duration and decreased controllability) of their suicidal ideation [75]. These three symptoms may suggest the level of severity and the clinical significance of these psychological problems.…”

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Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in Spanish Children and Adolescents: An Exploration of Comorbidity from the Network Perspective

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2021

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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The combination of depression and anxiety is among the most prevalent comorbidities of disorders leading to substantial functional impairment in children and adolescents. The network perspective offers a new paradigm for understanding and measuring psychological constructs and their comorbidity. The present study aims to apply network analysis to explore the comorbidity between depression and anxiety symptoms. Specifically, the study examines bridge symptoms, comorbidity, and shortest pathway networks and estimates the impact of the symptoms in the network’s connectivity and structure. The findings show that “feeling lonely” and “feeling unloved” are identified as the most central bridge symptoms. The shortest path network suggests that the role of a mixed anxiety-depressive symptomatology, and specific and non-specific symptoms of clinical criteria, such as “worries,” “feels depressed,” “fears school,” and “talks about suicide” could serve as a warning for comorbidity.

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Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in Spanish Children and Adolescents: An Exploration of Comorbidity from the Network Perspective

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2021

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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“…Areas of high immigrant density help promote a sense of community, particularly among immigrants and in turn, protects against suicide risk (Pan & Carpiano, 2013). The investigation of protective factors, including social-connectedness, belonging to a religious community, social networks (Abbott et al, 2019; Lopez-Castroman et al, 2020; Philip et al, 2016), and how these known protective factors apply to South Asians is critical for development and implementation of evidence-based and culturally adapted suicide prevention strategies, including increasing awareness, expanding mental health and culturally-specific counseling, as well as education and outreach in the communities.…”

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Suicide Among South Asians in the United States: A Growing Public Health Problem

2022

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This research study quantifies and describes suicide among South Asian Americans (SAAs), an emerging population that are underrepresented group in suicide research. The purpose of this study was to examine key characteristics of suicide deaths among SAAs. Data were employed from DuPage County, IL, a county with a large SAA population. Following federal recommendations for disaggregating Asian American data at a granular level, four SAA researchers used name recognition to identify all SAA cases classified as suicide in the DuPage County coroner’s database from 2001 to 2017 ( N = 38). Coroner’s reports were analyzed for contextual details and correlating factors specific to each suicide. Overall, 76.3% of victims were male and 45.0% were married. An analysis of the coroner reports established that 71.1% of decedents showed behavioral disorders that were predisposing risk factors for suicide including mental health diagnoses (57.9%), and a reported prior suicide attempt (21.1%). Among these decedents only 34.2% had received any prior psychiatric care. Significant errors in racial classification of SAAs, lead to a gross undercount of SAA deaths by suicide with 55% of South Asian suicides assigned to a different race or ethnic group. Future studies must increase the scope of this research to other geographic locations with high concentrations of SAAs and examine the risk factors for suicide among SAAs, one of the fastest growing ethnic populations in the U.S.

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“…Subsequently, they are driven to depend on attachment figures that may themselves still be immature, unstable, and unable to provide safety. Seeking security may also lead to affiliation with more deviant peers who use substances or are aggressive ( McKay, 2015 ; Abbott et al, 2019 ).…”

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“…Similarly, insecure attachment to parents combined with secure attachment to peers was found to be associated with adolescent depression and stress ( Oldfield et al, 2016 ). Third, variable-oriented studies also show that adolescents who rely on peers for attachment support are more likely to show aggression ( Oldfield et al, 2016 , 2018 ), affiliate with deviant peers ( Abbott et al, 2019 ), and have higher levels of problematic alcohol use ( McKay, 2015 ). Thus, we expect that adolescents with the “Parents insecure – Peers secure” profile are at higher risk for both mental health problems and risk-taking behavior than adolescents with the “Parents secure – Peers insecure” profile.…”

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Adolescent Attachment Profiles Are Associated With Mental Health and Risk-Taking Behavior

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This person-oriented study aimed to identify adolescents’ hierarchical attachment profiles with parents and peers, and to analyze associations between the profiles and adolescent psychosocial adjustment. Participants were 449 Finnish 17–19-year-olds reporting their attachments to mother, father, best friend, and romantic partner and details on mental health (internalizing symptoms, inattention/hyperactivity, and anger control problems) and risk-taking behavior (substance use and sexual risk-taking). Attachment was measured with Experiences in Close Relationships – Relationship Structures (ECR-RS); internalizing, inattention/hyperactivity, and anger control problems with Self-Report of Personality — Adolescent (SRP—A) of the Behavior Assessment System for Children, third edition (BASC-3); substance use with the Consumption scale of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT-C) and items from the Finnish School Health Promotion Study; and sexual risk-taking behavior with the Cognitive Appraisal of Risky Events (CARE). Latent profile analysis identified five attachment profiles: “All secure” (39%), “All insecure” (11%), “Parents insecure – Peers secure” (21%), “Parents secure – Friend insecure” (10%), and “Parents secure – Partner insecure” (19%). “All insecure” adolescents showed the highest and “All secure” adolescents the lowest levels of mental health problems and substance use. Further, parental attachment security seemed to specifically prevent substance use and anger control problems, while peer attachment security prevented internalizing problems. Our findings help both understand the organization of attachment hierarchies in adolescence and refine the role of specific attachment relationships in psychosocial adjustment, which can be important for clinical interventions in adolescence.

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Peer Deviance, Social Networks, and Suicide Ideation Intensity in a Clinical Sample of Adolescents

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in Spanish Children and Adolescents: An Exploration of Comorbidity from the Network Perspective

Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in Spanish Children and Adolescents: An Exploration of Comorbidity from the Network Perspective

Suicide Among South Asians in the United States: A Growing Public Health Problem

Adolescent Attachment Profiles Are Associated With Mental Health and Risk-Taking Behavior

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