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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 94, Issue 1, Pages 89-95Publisher
AMER PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOC INC
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.94.1.89
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- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [P01HD031921] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NICHD NIH HHS [P01 HD031921, HD31921] Funding Source: Medline
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Objectives. We investigated the relationship between friendships and suicidality among male and female adolescents. Methods. We analyzed friendship data on 13465 adolescents from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health to explore the relationship between friendship and suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. We controlled for known factors associated with suicidality. Results. Having had a friend who committed suicide increased the likelihood of suicidal ideation and attempts for both boys and girls. Socially isolated females were more likely to have suicidal thoughts, as were females whose friends were not friends with each other. Among adolescents thinking about suicide, suicide attempts appear largely stochastic, with few consistent risk factors between boys and girls. Conclusions. The friendship environment affects suicidality for both boys and girls. Female adolescents' suicidal thoughts are significantly increased by social isolation and friendship patterns in which friends were not friends with each other. (Am J Public Health. 2004;94:89-95).
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