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International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 50, No. 4, 351-360 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0020764004050335

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

Rebecca P. Ang

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, phrang{at}nie.edu.sg

Yoon Phaik Ooi

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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.


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R. P. Ang, B. H. Chia, and D. S.S. Fung
Gender differences in life stressors associated with child and adolescent suicides in Singapore from 1995 to 2003.
International Journal of Social Psychiatry, November 1, 2006; 52(6): 561 - 570.
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