ttempted suicide. Questionnaires were also administered; these included the Self-Rating Depression Scale and measures of self-esteem, personality, family environment, locus of control, and anxiety.
Various characteristics (e.g., low self-esteem, a permissive attitude toward committing suicide, psychiatric symptoms, higher state and trait anxiety, lower family cohesion, higher family conflict) discriminated attempters from normal subjects but not from depressed subjects. Even when a discriminant analysis was applied, the suicide attempters showed many similarities with depressed subjects, although both groups could be separated from the normal group.
Regarding relationships between depression, hopelessness and adolescent suicide, only a few studies were found that examined these factors using samples drawn from non-rural populations. This was a study conducted by Negron, Piacentini, Graae, Davies and Shaffer (1997) whose research findings indicated that while many depressed teens make th
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