Predicting suicide attempts in depressed adolescents: Clarifying the role of disinhibition and childhood sexual abuse

Journal of Affective Disorders
Jeremy G StewartRandy P Auerbach

Abstract

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents, and depressed youth are six times more likely to make suicide attempts as compared to non-depressed adolescents. The present study examined the unique and interactive effects of two well-established correlates of suicidality - childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and disinhibition - in predicting suicide attempts among depressed adolescents. Participants were 163 adolescents (125 females) aged 13-18 (M=15.60, SD=1.27) diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (n=95, 58.3%) and/or Dysthymia (n=69, 42.3%) recruited from an acute residential treatment service. Participants completed interviews assessing psychopathology and suicidality, self-report measures of depressive symptoms and CSA, and a computerized disinhibition task. Consistent with hypotheses, CSA moderated the association between disinhibition and adolescents' report of their past year and lifetime suicide attempts. Specifically, higher disinhibition was associated with a greater likelihood of having made a suicide attempt among adolescents with a history of CSA, but not among those without. The same pattern of results held in analyses of suicide attempt frequency. Primary findings were based on observational, cross...Continue Reading

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Mar 14, 2017·Archives of Suicide Research : Official Journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research·José Luis Jasso MedranoManuel Gámez-Guadix
Oct 21, 2016·Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology·Catherine R GlennRandy P Auerbach
Jul 5, 2017·Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines·Catherine R GlennRandy P Auerbach
Jul 22, 2017·Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy·Alexander MuelaJone Aliri
Mar 31, 2016·Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology·Randy P AuerbachSheri L Johnson
Apr 27, 2019·European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry·Alberto ForteSylvana M Côté
Apr 28, 2019·Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology·Jeremy G StewartRandy P Auerbach
Apr 27, 2017·Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology·Jeremy G StewartRandy P Auerbach
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