Suicidal Ideation and
Attempts during Middle Childhood: Associations with Subjective Quality of Life and Depression
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Third, we investigated whether interpersonal difficulties
during middle adolescence were associated with risk for suicide
attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood after maladaptive parenting or abuse
during childhood or early adolescence was controlled statistically.
Moderation hypotheses were tested by investigating whether the statistical interaction of maladaptive parenting or abuse
during childhood or early adolescence and interpersonal difficulties
during middle adolescence predicted suicide
attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood.
Associations between (1) elevated maladaptive parenting or abuse
during childhood or early adolescence and elevated relationship difficulties
during middle adolescence; (2) elevated maladaptive parenting or abuse
during childhood or early adolescence and suicide
attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood, controlling for elevated relationship difficulties
during middle adolescence; and (3) elevated relationship difficulties
during middle adolescence and suicide
attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood, controlling for maladaptive parenting or abuse
during childhood or early adolescence.
Profound interpersonal difficulties
during middle adolescence mediated the association between maladaptive parenting or
childhood maltreatment and suicide
attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood.
Logistic regression analyses were conducted to investigate the mediation hypotheses, using an established 3 - step procedure.48 First, we investigated whether there was a significant bivariate association between a high level of maladaptive parenting (operationally defined as ≥ 3 maladaptive parenting behaviors) or abuse
during childhood or early adolescence (by a mean age of 14 years) and risk for suicide
attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood (reported at a mean age of 22 years) and whether the magnitude of this association was reduced when interpersonal difficulties
during middle adolescence (reported at a mean age of 16 years) were controlled statistically.
Twenty (87 %) of the young adults who reported suicide
attempts had experienced a high level of maladaptive parenting or abuse
during childhood and / or a high level of interpersonal difficulties
during middle adolescence.
Results Maladaptive parenting and
childhood maltreatment were associated with an elevated risk for interpersonal difficulties
during middle adolescence and for suicide
attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood after age, sex, psychiatric symptoms
during childhood and early adolescence, and parental psychiatric symptoms were controlled statistically.
The principal finding of the present study is that interpersonal difficulties
during middle adolescence mediated the association between maladaptive parenting or abuse
during childhood or early adolescence and suicide
attempts during early adulthood.
Third, a high level of interpersonal difficulties
during middle adolescence was significantly associated with risk for suicide
attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood after maladaptive parenting or abuse
during childhood or early adolescence was controlled statistically (Table 4 and Figure 1).
Interpersonal difficulties
during middle adolescence mediated the association between maladaptive parenting or abuse
during childhood or early adolescence and suicide
attempts during adolescence or early adulthood.
Maladaptive parenting and
childhood maltreatment were associated with an elevated risk for interpersonal difficulties
during middle adolescence and for suicide
attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood after age, sex, psychiatric symptoms
during childhood and early adolescence, and parental psychiatric symptoms were controlled statistically.