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Impact of Gender And Parents’ Marital Status on Adolescents’ Suicidal Ideation

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  • Rebecca P. Ang

    (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, phrang@nie.edu.sg)

  • Yoon Phaik Ooi

    (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

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This study investigated the effect of gender and parents’ marital status on adolescents’ suicidal ideation in a sample of Grade 8 and Grade 9 students (mean age 14.12 years) in Singapore. Two hundred and seventy-one (149 boys and 122 girls) students completed the junior high school version of the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire (SIQ-JR) and a short demographic questionnaire. Consistent with our hypothesis, the 2 (Gender) 2 (Parents’ marital status) ANOVA yielded a statistically significant interaction effect as expected. Specifically, tests of simple effects reveal that adolescent boys from single-parent families were found to be significantly higher on suicidal ideation compared with adolescent boys from two-parent families. This difference was not found among adolescent girls - adolescent girls from single-parent and two-parent families did not differ significantly on suicidal ideation. Being a boy in a single-parent home environment may increase one’s risk for endorsing clinically significant suicidal ideation.

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  • Rebecca P. Ang & Yoon Phaik Ooi, 2004. "Impact of Gender And Parents’ Marital Status on Adolescents’ Suicidal Ideation," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 50(4), pages 351-360, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:50:y:2004:i:4:p:351-360
    DOI: 10.1177/0020764004050335
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