Not exact matches
Target group: FisT has typically been run within schools and targeted at children aged
between 8 - 12 years who experience problems in expressing their strong feelings, and who have
difficulties in their
interpersonal relationships.
Logistic regression analyses were also conducted to investigate whether
interpersonal difficulties during adolescence moderated the association
between maladaptive parenting or abuse and subsequent offspring suicide attempts.
Because our review of the literature indicated that this set of risk factors and outcomes had not previously been investigated in a thoroughly comprehensive and systematic manner with longitudinal data, data from the Children in the Community Study, 27 a prospective longitudinal investigation, were used to investigate whether negative life events or severe
interpersonal difficulties during adolescence mediate the association
between childhood adversities and suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood.
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.
Analyses of contingency tables were conducted to investigate associations
between childhood adversities, negative life events, severe
interpersonal difficulties, and suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood.
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.
Depression is common among adolescents, with a point prevalence
between 3 % and 8 %.1 By age 18 years, as many as 25 % of adolescents have had at least 1 depressive episode.2 Depressive disorders in children and teens increase the risk of illness,
interpersonal problems, and psychosocial
difficulties that persist long after the episode, 3 and adolescents who experience depressive episodes have an increased risk of substance abuse and suicidal behavior.4 - 6 Adults with depression have increased health care costs, 7 and successful depression treatment may decrease these costs for adults8 and children.9
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.
Background Data from a community - based longitudinal study were used to investigate the association
between childhood adversities,
interpersonal difficulties during adolescence, and suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood.
Supplemental analyses also indicated that
interpersonal difficulties mediated the association
between school violence during childhood or early adolescence and suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood.
Interpersonal difficulties accounted for 51 % of the association
between maladaptive parenting or abuse during childhood or early adolescence and suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood.
Association
Between Maladaptive Parenting or Abuse During Childhood or Early Adolescence and
Interpersonal Difficulties Reported at a Mean Age of 16 Years *