ADOLESCENT SUICIDE IN CANADA Introduction The

The third section of the paper places the problem in context by examining the conservative, conflict and feminist models of causative and contributive factors. The final section of the paper presents a series of conclusions about adolescent suicide in Canada which were formulated on the basis of the reviewed material.

Data regarding the scope of adolescent suicide in Canada have been compiled by the National Task Force on Suicide. According to the Task Force report, from 1989 to 1991, suicide was the second leading cause of death (after car accidents) for Canadians aged 15 and 19 years. The report noted that the adolescent suicide rate is of special concern because it has greatly increased over the last 40 years.

Regarding this increase, the Task Force stated that adolescent suicide is up from 3.3 per 100,000 in 1950 to 13.8 per 100,000 in 1991, a figure that is higher than that of the United States; moreover, among Native groups, these figures are even higher.

Pagliaro reports that attempted suicide is higher among female adolescents than among male adolescents; in

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y of the psychosocial correlates of adolescent suicide was conducted by de Man and Leduc who used questionnaire data obtained from 246 English-Canadian high school students to examine the relationship between suicidal ideation and selected personal variables, stress, and social support. Associations were found between suicidal ideation and the variables of gender, self-esteem, locus of control, depression, drug use, stress, perception of health, family status, academic performance, social support, and anomie. Multiple regression analysis identified depression and alcohol use as best individual predictors among these variables. Semipartial correlation analyses was said to show that removal of the effect of depression resulted in a loss of initially significant relationships between suicidal ideation and the other variables except for alcohol use, drug use, and health satisfaction. Family factors have also been found to be related to suicide. For example, in a study of the effects of family disruption on suicidality in Canadian adolescents, Kurtz and Derevensky concluded that parental conflict and divorce may increase psychological vulnerability during adolescence. It was also noted that suicidal behavior can be a co
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