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

Rebecca P. Ang and Yoon Phaik Ooi
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Rebecca P. Ang: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, phrang@nie.edu.sg
Yoon Phaik Ooi: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2004, vol. 50, issue 4, 351-360

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1177/0020764004050335

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