Gender-Specific Risk Factors for Suicidality Among High School Students

This study examined differences in three major risk areas associated with suicidality (suicidal ideation and suicide attempts) separately by gender: 1) substance use, 2) aggression/victimization, and 3) risky sexual behaviors. This study is a secondary data analysis of the Youth Risk Behavior Survei...

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Published inArchives of suicide research Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 193 - 205
Main Authors Epstein, Jennifer A., Spirito, Anthony
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Taylor & Francis Group 01.07.2010
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescents
Age of Onset
Aggression - psychology
Alcohol Drinking - epidemiology
Female
Fighting
Gender
Gender differences
High schools
Humans
Male
Population Surveillance
Risk
Risk Factors
Secondary school students
Sex Distribution
sexual behavior
Sexual behaviour
Smoking
Smoking - epidemiology
Students
Students - psychology
Students - statistics & numerical data
Studies
Substance use
Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology
Suicidal behaviour
suicidal ideation
Suicide
Suicide - statistics & numerical data
suicide attempts
Suicide, Attempted - psychology
Suicide, Attempted - statistics & numerical data
Suicides & suicide attempts
Teenagers
U.S.A
United States - epidemiology
Unsafe Sex - statistics & numerical data
victimization
Victims
United States
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Summary:This study examined differences in three major risk areas associated with suicidality (suicidal ideation and suicide attempts) separately by gender: 1) substance use, 2) aggression/victimization, and 3) risky sexual behaviors. This study is a secondary data analysis of the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance (YRBS) survey, consisting of data collected from a nationally representative sample of high school students. Early alcohol onset, having had sex before age 13, injection drug use, and being forced to have sex were associated with suicidality across gender. Smoking in girls was associated with making a plan to attempt suicide and actual suicide attempts. Fighting was related to suicidality for girls, while fighting in school was related to suicidality for boys. The importance of examining risk factors for suicidality separately for boys and girls is discussed.
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ISSN:1381-1118
1543-6136
DOI:10.1080/13811118.2010.494130