ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2013
The mediating roles of stress and maladaptive behaviors on self-harm and suicide attempts among runaway and homeless youth.
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- The Global Prevalence of Non-suicidal Self-injury, Suicide Behaviors, and Associated Risk Factors Among Runaway and Homeless Youth: A Meta-analysis.Community mental health journal · 2024Pooled it
- Social Problem-Solving and Suicidal Ideation Among Homeless Youth Receiving a Cognitive Therapy Intervention: A Moderated Mediation Analysis.Behavior therapy · 2021Trial
- Suicide, Psychoactive Substances, and Homelessness: A Scoping Review.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Programmatic, Environmental, and Temporal Predictors of Violence, Overdose, and Self-Injury in Homeless Shelters in Toronto, Canada, 2012-2021.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Article
- Culturally informed and flexible family based treatment for adolescents: enhancements to better serve adolescents with self-harm behavior.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Identifying and Ranking Strategies to Address Housing Insecurity and Homelessness Within the LGBTQIA+ Community in Southern Nevada: Utilization of Community-Based Participatory Research and Concept Mapping.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Exploring Mental Health Services for Youth Experiencing Homelessness in East Asian Pacific Regions: A Systematic Scoping Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Couch-Surfing and Mental Health Outcomes among Sexual Minority Adolescents.Journal of social distress and the homeless · 2024Article
- Toward objective characterizations of suicide risk: A narrative review of laboratory-based cognitive and behavioral tasks.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
- A Stress Protein-Based Suicide Prediction Score and Relationship to Reported Early-Life Adversity and Recent Life Stress.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Suicidality and homelessness: prevalence and associated factors of suicidal behaviour among homeless young adults in Southern Ethiopia.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Predictors for runaway behavior in adolescents in South Korea: national data from a comprehensive survey of adolescents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Association between suicide attempt and previous healthcare utilization among homeless youth.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2022Article
- Rates and correlates of well-being among youth experiencing homelessness.Journal of community psychology · 2022Article
- Adolescent Homelessness and Associated Features: Prevalence and Risk Across Eight States.Child psychiatry and human development · 2020Article
- LGBTIQ+ Homelessness: A Review of the Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Review
- Increased burden of suicidality among young street-involved sex workers who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2019Article
- Family Functioning and Predictors of Runaway Behavior Among At-Risk Youth.Child & adolescent social work journal : C & A · 2017Article
- Mental health and support among young key populations: an ecological approach to understanding and intervention.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2015Article
- Out on the street: a public health and policy agenda for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth who are homeless.The American journal of orthopsychiatry · 2014Article
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Abstract
Runaway and homeless youth often have a constellation of background behavioral, emotional, and familial problems that contribute to stress and maladaptive behaviors, which, in turn, can lead to self-harming and suicidal behaviors. The current study examined the roles of stress and maladaptive behaviors as mediators between demographic and psychosocial background characteristics and self-injurious outcomes through the lens of the stress process paradigm. The model was tested in a sample of runaway and homeless youth from Los Angeles County (N = 474, age 12-24, 41 % female, 17 % White, 32.5 % African American, 21.5 % Hispanic/Latino). Background variables (gender, age, sexual minority status, parental drug use history, and emotional distress) predicted hypothesized mediators of maladaptive behaviors and recent stress. In turn, it was hypothesized that the mediators would predict self-harming behaviors and suicide attempts in the last 3 months. Females and LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) youth were more likely to have self-harmed and attempted suicide; younger participants reported more self-harming. The mediating constructs were associated more highly with self-harming than suicide attempts bivariately, although differences were modest. Maladaptive behaviors and recent stress were significant predictors of self-harm, whereas only recent stress was a significant predictor of suicide attempts. All background factors were significant predictors of recent stress. Older age, a history of parental drug use, and greater emotional distress predicted problem drug use. Males, younger participants, and participants with emotional distress reported more delinquent behaviors. Significant indirect effects on self-harming behaviors were mediated through stress and maladaptive behaviors. The hypothesized paradigm was useful in explaining the associations among background factors and self-injurious outcomes and the influence of mediating factors on these associations.
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