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Relations Between Suicidal Ideation, Depression, and Emotional Autonomy from Parents in Adolescence

Carla ZappullaUgo Pace

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media_common.quotation_subjectAdolescence Suicidal ideation Depression Separation DetachmentHuman factors and ergonomicsPoison controlSuicide preventionOccupational safety and healthSettore M-PSI/04 - Psicologia Dello Sviluppo E Psicologia Dell'EducazioneInjury preventionDevelopmental and Educational Psychologymedicinemedicine.symptomLife-span and Life-course StudiesPsychologySuicidal ideationDepression (differential diagnoses)Autonomymedia_commonClinical psychology

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We examined the relations between depression, emotional autonomy quality-related constructs of separation and detachment, and suicidal ideation, focusing on the unique and common contribution that depression, separation and detachment made to suicidal ideation. We also examined gender differences. 403 adolescents, 196 boys and 207 girls, completed self-report measures of depression, separation and detachment, and suicidal ideation. The data showed a significant relation between depression and suicidal ideation both for boys and girls, and between detachment and suicidal ideation only for boys. Results for boys supported an additive model such that depression and detachment each contributed unique variance to boys’ suicidal ideation, and an interactive model such that detachment contributed to exacerbate the risk of suicidal ideation when boys were already at risk because of depression. The data for girls supported an interactive, but not additive, model such that depression and detachment did not contribute independently to girls’ suicidal ideation but in a joint way.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2010-03-18Journal of Child and Family Studies
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-010-9364-9