NCJ Number
108643
Journal
Adolescence Volume: 22 Issue: 88 Dated: (Winter 1987) Pages: 863-878
Date Published
1987
Length
16 pages
Annotation
Recently it has been suggested that social-psychological profiles of suicide attempters are useful to identify high-risk persons.
Abstract
There also is evidence that the complexity of interpersonal and intrapersonal factors constrict the extent to which such identification can be made. Using data from a nonprobability sample of 455 adolescent and youthful committers to test the hypothesis that attempters and committers do not differ with respect to environmental and stress-producing factors, the results reveal some differences between committers and attempters. Social-psychological characteristics of committers and factors relating to their social support systems are also discussed in the context of those differences. (Publisher abstract)