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Community Mental Health Journal
Published in: Community Mental Health Journal 5/2016

01-07-2016 | Original Paper

An Integrated Model of Suicidal Ideation in Transcultural Populations of Chinese Adolescents

Authors: Cyrus L. K. Leung, Sylvia Y. C. L. Kwok, Chloe C. Y. Ling

Published in: Community Mental Health Journal | Issue 5/2016

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Abstract

This study tested the model of suicidal ideation, incorporating family and personal factors to predict suicidal ideation with hopelessness as a mediating factor in the Hong Kong sample, to a sample in Shanghai. Using MGSEM, the study aims to investigate the personal correlates and the family correlates of suicidal ideation in Hong Kong and Shanghai adolescents. We integrated the family ecological and diathesis-stress-hopelessness models of suicidal ideation in connecting the correlates. A cross-sectional design was used. The full model achieved metric invariance and partial path-loading invariance. Family functioning and social problem solving negatively predicted hopelessness or suicidal ideation in both the Hong Kong and Shanghai adolescents. The results supported an integrative approach in facilitating parent-adolescent communication and strengthening family functioning, and reducing the use of negative social problem-solving styles in adolescent suicide prevention.
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Metadata
Title
An Integrated Model of Suicidal Ideation in Transcultural Populations of Chinese Adolescents
Authors
Cyrus L. K. Leung
Sylvia Y. C. L. Kwok
Chloe C. Y. Ling
Publication date
01-07-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Community Mental Health Journal / Issue 5/2016
Print ISSN: 0010-3853
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2789
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-015-9920-2

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