From Exposure to Violence between Mother and Her Intimate Partner to Suicidality Experienced by Urban Adolescents in Chicago’s Southside

Jun Sung Hong, Saijun Zhang, Viktor Burlaka, Mieko Yoshihama, Yueqi Yan and Dexter R. Voisin
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Jun Sung Hong: School of Social Work, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Saijun Zhang: Department of Social Work, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677, USA
Viktor Burlaka: School of Social Work, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Mieko Yoshihama: School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Yueqi Yan: Biostatistics and Data Support, University of California Merced, Merced, CA 95344, USA
Dexter R. Voisin: Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1V4, Canada

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 15, 1-11

Abstract: Although the relationship between exposure to intimate partner violence and youths’ psychological and other wellbeing has been widely studied, there is limited research about how youths’ exposure to violence between mother and her intimate partner may be related to youth psychological wellbeing. The study used a sample of urban adolescents in Chicago Southbound to examine whether youths’ exposure to verbal conflict between mother and her intimate partner is related to their suicidality and whether youth depression and aggression may be in between such a linkage. Our findings indicated that one-third of the youth had suicidal thoughts or suicidal/self-hurting attempts. Youths’ exposure to verbal conflict between mother and her intimate partner was associated with their depressive and aggressive symptoms, and depressive symptoms subsequently were linked to suicidality. The findings also showed that youth depressive symptoms and aggressive symptoms were positively correlated, which may influence their associations with suicidality. We concluded that youth exposure to parental intimate partner violence, even comparatively mild forms such as a verbal conflict between mother and her intimate partner, may increase their risk of suicidality by worsening psychological wellbeing. The findings highlight the importance of tackling youth suicidality risks while accounting for their exposure to intimate partner violence including verbal conflicts between parents.

Keywords: alcohol; bullying; ethnicity; marijuana; race; tobacco (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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