Abstract
In this study, we examined family support and friend support as potential mediators between psychological suzhi and suicide ideation in a sample of 1,369 Chinese adolescents (48. 1% men, 15.52 ± 1.76 years). The results showed that family support and friend support were found to adequately mediate the relationship between psychological suzhi and suicide ideation. In addition, the effect of psychological suzhi on adolescents' suicide ideation was stronger for family support than friend support. These findings demonstrated the key roles of psychological suzhi, family support, and friend support in reducing adolescents' suicide ideation. It enlightens us that we are supposed to improve adolescents' psychological suzhi and perceived social support (including family support and friend support) through many ways in order to better play its protective role in the future.
Highlights
The 1990–2016 Global Suicide Disease Burden Analysis Report pointed out that, overall, ∼800,000 people die of suicide every year in the world
As two potential parallel mediators, friend support and family support were entered into a mediation model to examine whether they mediated the link between psychological suzhi and suicide ideation in Chinese adolescents
Psychological suzhi significantly related to suicide ideation (β = −0.40), supporting Hypothesis 1
Summary
The 1990–2016 Global Suicide Disease Burden Analysis Report pointed out that, overall, ∼800,000 people die of suicide every year in the world. The age-standardized death rate of suicide has dropped by 32.7% over the past 20 years, the phenomenon of suicide among teenagers has increased. It has become more and more common and has become a major global public health problem. From the perspective of suicide formation process, suicide ideation is the main link and inevitable stage of suicidal behavior, and it is the most sensitive predictor (Miranda et al, 2014; Ni and Chen, 2016). It is of great significance for the prevention and intervention of suicidal behavior of teenagers to find out the protective factors that influence suicide ideation and further reveal its influencing mechanism
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