Adolescent Suicide Ideation, Depression and Self-Esteem: Relationships to a New Measure of Gender Role Conflict

Frontiers in Psychology

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Cormac O’Beaglaoich¹  Jessica McCutcheon³  Paul F. Conway¹  Joan Hanafin²  Todd G. Morrison³ 

[1] School of Education, University of Limerick;National Institute for Studies in Education;Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan;Inclusion in Education and Society Research Group, School of Education, Trinity College Dublin

关键词: suicide ideation;    boys;    masculinity;    gender role conflict;    Ireland;    adolescence;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00111

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Among 15–24 year olds in Ireland, completed suicide was responsible for 4.1 times more male deaths than female deaths in 2014 ( World Health Organization [WHO], 2017 ). Few international research studies have investigated the relationship between masculinity [as assessed by a measure of gender role conflict (GRC)] and suicide ideation, and none have done so with Irish adolescents. Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to investigate the relationships between a new measure of GRC developed specifically for use with Irish adolescents (I-GRCS-A; O’Beaglaoich et al., 2016 ), and depression, self-esteem, and negative/protective suicide ideation. A sample of 176 adolescent boys ( M = 16.9, SD = 0.94) from a non-clinical population participated in the study. Regression analyses and tests of mediation revealed that depression significantly mediated the relationship between GRC and negative suicide ideation, whilst self-esteem and depression significantly mediated the relationship between GRC and positive suicide ideation. Implications and limitations of the current study are outlined and directions for future research are discussed.

【 授权许可】

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