ArticleInternational journal of public health2019
Parental overprotection and youth suicide behavior in low- and middle-income countries: a multilevel analysis of cross-national data.
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- The Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence in the Relationship Between Parental Overprotection and Offspring's Physical Health in Adulthood.Journal of Intelligence · 2025Article
- Associations between overprotective parenting style and academic anxiety among Chinese high school students.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The Roles of Endorsement and Stigma in Suicidal Ideation and Behavior among Chinese College Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Bullying and other risk factors related to adolescent suicidal behaviours in the Philippines: a look into the 2011 GSHS Survey.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- The impact of parenting styles on undergraduate students' emotion regulation: The mediating role of academic-social student-faculty interaction.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- College students' screening early warning factors in identification of suicide risk.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- Parenting and adolescent suicidal behavior.EClinicalMedicine · 2021Article
- Risk and protective factors for childhood suicidality: a US population-based study.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2020Article
- Hormesis in Health and Chronic Diseases.Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM · 2019Review
- Growing through adolescence: a gendered approach is needed.International journal of public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectivesResearch on youth suicide behavior has emphasized parent-child relations as a critical protective factor. This study investigates whether "too much" regulation of children, i.e., overprotection, may actually increase the likelihoods of youth suicide intent and plan.
methodsData are drawn from the subset of the Global School-based Student Health Survey (2000-2012), consisting of children living in 48 low- and middle-income countries. Two-level hierarchical linear models are fitted to examine the potential curvilinear (U-shaped) association between parental monitoring and suicide behavior among youth.
resultsAdjusting for individual- and country-level covariates, significant support is found for non-monotonicity specifically among boys: Greater parental involvement in male children's lives lowers both suicide ideation and suicide plan to some extent but, after certain thresholds, increases the odds of both outcomes. Results for girls, however, are much less pronounced.
conclusionsIn resource-poor countries marked by some of the highest teenage suicide rates in the world, overprotective parenting style is found to have negative and gendered consequences on the mental health of youth. More research is needed to confirm its replicability in economically more developed societies.
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