[Suicidality in thinking and experience of children and adolescents]

In researching the tendency to suicide among children and adolescents it is important to know what they think about the attitude towards suicide. The present article covers a survey taken of 465 male and female pupils on this subject. On the one hand it reveals some interesting differences in the results according to age groups and sex, but on the other hand thoughts of suicide expressed by the younger pupils questioned are not significantly lower than those expressed by older pupils. This result seems noteworthy because the rate of suicide in youths increases with age.