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Published on: September 19, 2019
Parent-child relationships as systems of support or risk for adolescent suicidality
Jennifer J Connor1, Martha A Rueter
1Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. conno043@umn.edu
Abstract:
This study examined a process model of predicting adolescent suicidality. Adolescent emotional distress was hypothesized to mediate the relationship between parental behaviors and subsequent adolescent suicidality. The parental behaviors studied included parental warmth and parental hostility. A sample of 451 families from rural Iowa participated in this longitudinal study, which included both observational and self-report data. Models were tested with structural equation modeling. Adolescent emotional distress was found to be a mediating variable between paternal warmth and adolescent suicidality. Results indicated that maternal warmth predicted adolescent suicidality but not emotional distress. Parental hostility did not predict either latent variable. Clinical implications are provided.
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