Resilience and suicidality among homeless youth
Resilience and suicidality among homeless youth
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DOI：
10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.11.003
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发表时间：
2011-10-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Kidd, Sean A.
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作者：
Cleverley, Kristin;Kidd, Sean A.
无家可归和流落街头的青年被认为是一个极高的风险群体，许多研究都强调了他们的轨迹，其特点是虐待、忽视和不稳定的家庭历史，在街头受害和犯罪，身体和精神疾病的高发率，以及极高的死亡率。虽然存在大量关于风险的知识，但近年来，人们的注意力越来越多地转移到对这些年轻人的复原力、干预和服务提供模式的研究上。本研究描述了对47名无家可归和街头青年的个人和街头相关人口统计、心理困扰、自尊、恢复力和自杀率的定量调查结果。主要研究结果表明，心理健康变量（包括恢复力）的明显侵蚀与年轻人没有稳定住房的时间长短有关。最后，这些青少年感知到的复原力与较少的自杀意念相关，而较高的心理困扰与较高的自杀意念相关，即使考虑到复原力也是如此。(C) 2010年青少年服务专业人员基金会。Elsevier Ltd.出版。版权所有。
Homeless and street-involved youth are considered an extremely high risk group, with many studies highlighting trajectories characterized by abusive, neglectful, and unstable family histories, victimization and criminal involvement while on the streets, high rates of physical and mental illness, and extremely high rates of mortality. While there exists a substantial body of knowledge regarding risk, in recent years attention has been increasingly shifting to the examination of resilience, intervention, and service delivery models for these young people. The present study describes the findings from a quantitative examination of personal and street-related demographics, psychological distress, self-esteem, resilience, and suicidality among 47 homeless and street-involved youth. Key findings indicate that the apparent erosion of mental health variables, including resilience, occurs as a function of how long the youths have been without stable housing. Finally, those youths' perceived resilience was associated with less suicidal ideation whereas higher psychological distress was associated with higher suicidal ideation, even when accounting for resiliency. (C) 2010 The Foundation for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.