Resource Tag: WHITES

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In a sample of 52 high school students and 81 college students, scores on the Beck Depression Inventory and current suicidal ideation were associated with high school versus college status but not with gender or race.

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This study examined group differences in depressive symptomatology on the Beck Depression Inventory in 278 African Americans & 278 Caucasian Americans seeking psychotherapy. Relative to Caucasian Americans, African Americans reported less pessimism, dissatisfaction, self-blame, & suicidal ideation, & more sense of punishment & weight change, but for reasons unrelated to depression. (59 refs)

The purpose of this study was to identify risk & protective factors for suicide attempts among black, Hispanic, & white male & female adolescents in the United States. The authors found that perceived parent & family connectedness was protective against suicide attempts for black, Hispanic, & white adolescents. For girls, emotional well being was also […]

The present study assesses the link between choice of violent methods of suicide & race from the standpoint of two perspectives: differential socio-acceptability & differential availability. Data from the 1990 mortality detail file of the U.S. Public Health Service indicated that although African Americans are less likely to own firearms, they are 2.24 times more […]

Published in “Back to the Future: Refocusing the Image of Suicide,” ed. by J L McIntosh

The current study tested a model of adolescent suicide ideation in a sample of 258 high school students, comparing the model fit across 2 racial groups. The authors found that the model significantly fit the data for both groups indicating that the relationship between suicide exposure & current suicidal ideation is mediated by reasons for […]

The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between suicide & cocaine & ethanol use among completed suicides in Fulton County, Ga., from 1994 through 1998. The authors found significant race, sex, & age differences among the victims who had used cocaine & ethanol before committing suicide, especially in teenage victims. Overall, ethanol […]

Analysis of responses of 16,262 high school students surveyed in the 1997 National School-Based Youth Risk Survey indicated that Hispanic male youths engaged more often in risky, including suicidal, behaviours than White or Black male youths, whereas Hispanic & White female youths engaged less often in risky behaviours than Black female youths. The pattern of […]

This study examines longitudinal mental health service use patterns of a school-based sample of adolescents. Based on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale scores, a stratified sample of middle-school students was interviewed using the Schedule for Affective Disorders & Schizophrenia for School-Aged Children. Service use decreased over time. Under-treatment of youth with psychiatric diagnoses […]