ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2019
Life Stress and Suicide in Adolescents.
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- Pooled it
- A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis of 30 years of stress generation research: Clinical, psychological, and sociodemographic risk and protective factors for prospective negative life events.Psychological bulletin · 2024Pooled it
- Associations between humiliation, shame, self-harm and suicidality among adolescents and young adults: A systematic review.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- The Stress and Adversity Inventory for Adults (Adult STRAIN) in German: An overview and initial validation.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Understanding Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among University Students: The Roles of Psychological Distress and Social Support Dynamics.Journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
- Mood computational mechanisms underlying increased risk behavior in adolescent suicidal patients.eLife · 2026Article
- Stressful life events and depressive symptom severity associated with suicide planning among adolescents with depression and non-suicidal self-injury: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Suicide attempt history is associated with blunted neural reward responsiveness after accounting for a history of suicidal ideation and preparatory behaviors.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Multivariate Associations Between R-PAS Variables and Suicidal Ideation and Behaviors in Help-Seeking Adolescents.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Momentary stress and social context among adolescents at risk for suicide: An experience sampling study.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Machine learning-based prediction of suicide attempts among adolescents: a national study using explainable artificial intelligence.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Effects of Cyberball on cognitive vulnerability for suicide in youth with a history of multiple suicide attempts.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Interpersonal and targeted rejection life stressors are proximal risk factors for suicidal ideation and behavior.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Evaluation of suicide patterns, causes and triggering factors in children and adolescents.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Characteristics Associated With Mental Health Treatment Prior to Suicide Among Youth in the United States.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2025Article
- Lifetime stressor exposure is related to suicidality in autistic adults: A multinational study.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Article
- Examining the Construct Validity of Experimental Suicide Images Among Young Adults.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2025Article
- Epigenetics and suicidal behavior in adolescents: a critical review.Epigenomics · 2025Review
- Suicide Ideation Severity and Oculomotor Avoidance of Suicide-Related Stimuli.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2025Article
- The Etiopathogenic Mosaic of Suicidal Behaviour.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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Abstract
Stress exposure is central to theories of suicide. To advance understanding of the relation between stress and suicide, we examined whether specific, theoretically-pertinent life stressors were differentially related to suicidal thinking versus suicidal behaviors among hospitalized adolescents. Participants were 197 (144 female) adolescents aged 13 to 19 years old (M = 15.61, SD = 1.48) recruited from an acute residential psychiatric treatment program. Participants were categorized into mutually exclusive groups: psychiatric controls (n = 38) with no lifetime history of suicide ideation or suicide attempts, suicide ideators (n = 99) with current ideation and no lifetime attempts, and suicide attempters (n = 60) with a lifetime history of suicide ideation and at least one attempt in the past month. Adolescents completed the Stress and Adversity Inventory for Adolescents (Adolescent STRAIN), which assessed life events and chronic difficulties occurring in five social-psychological categories: Interpersonal Loss, Physical Danger, Humiliation, Entrapment, and Role Change/Disruption. Additionally, they completed a structured interview and symptom questionnaires to capture concurrent psychopathology. Controlling for demographic and clinical covariates, only Interpersonal Loss events distinguished attempters from psychiatric controls (OR = 2.27) and ideators (OR = 1.49); no events or difficulties differentiated ideators from controls. These effects persisted when analyses were restricted to single attempters and when events following the most recent attempt were excluded. The findings elucidate potential social-environmental triggers of suicide. Ultimately, this may improve the identification of ideators most likely to make an attempt, enabling the deployment of targeted early interventions.
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