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30 PARENTAL FACTORS RELATED TO ADOLESCENT SUICIDE

It is the purpose of this study to assess the relationship between adolescent suicide attempts and parental depression, parental self-esteem, parental marital adjustment, and parental suicidal behavior. The phenomenal increase in suicide among the young is frequently related to family dysfunction although the few existing studies of this phenomenon are characterized by very small sample sizes, lack of controls, clinical impressions, unsophisticated data analysis, and the exclusion of information from parents themselves. The sample for this study consists of 46 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 20 (and their parents) who were treated for attempted suicide in 1979 and 1980 at Children's Hospital Emergency Room, Columbus, Ohio. These families were matched by sex, race, and socioeconomic status with a control group of 46 families of non-suicidal adolescents who were treated at the same emergency room for minor injuries. Preliminary correlational and regression analysis indicates a significant relationship between parental depression and parental self-esteem and adolescent suicide attempts.