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- Title
Adolescents' Attitudes About the Role of Mental Illness in Suicide, and Their Association with Suicide Risk.
- Authors
Lake, Alison M.; Kandasamy, Suganthi; Kleinman, Marjorie; Gould, Madelyn S.
- Abstract
We examined teenagers' attitudes about the role of mental illness in suicidal behavior and the relationship between these attitudes and suicide risk. Serious suicidal ideation or behavior and associated risk factors (gender, depression, substance problems, and first-hand experience with a suicidal peer) were assessed in 2,419 students at six New York high schools. Less than one fifth of students thought that mental illness was a major contributor to suicide. Suicidal adolescents and those at risk were less likely than their nonsuicidal and low-risk counterparts to associate suicide with mental illness. Our findings contribute to the debate over whether accepting attitudes toward suicide increase suicide risk.
- Subjects
ATTITUDE (Psychology); ADOLESCENT psychology; MENTAL illness; SUICIDE risk factors; SUICIDAL ideation; PSYCHOLOGY of high school students
- Publication
Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, 2013, Vol 43, Issue 6, p692
- ISSN
0363-0234
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/sltb.12052