Citation

Kim HS, Chae YS, Bae YJ. J. Korean Acad. Nurs. 2012; 42(1): 1-8.

Affiliation

College of Nursing, Research Institute of Nursing Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea. hskim8879@knu.ac.kr.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Korean Society of Nursing Science)

DOI

10.4040/jkan.2012.42.1.1

PMID

22410596

Abstract

PURPOSE: This study was conducted to identify the protective factors that influence suicide probability in religious male high school students. METHODS: The data was collected from Nov. 5 to Dec. 10, 2009. Data were collected by self-report questionnaire from 255 students selected from 2 religious male high schools in B city. The instruments for this study were the Suicide Probability Scale for Adolescence (SPS-A), Inventory Parents Peer Attachment-Revision (IPPA-R), Spiritual Well-being Scale (SWBS), and Ego-identity Scale. The data were analyzed using t-test, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe test, Pearson correlation coefficients and stepwise multiple regression with the SPSS 14.0 program. RESULTS: The protective factors of suicide probability in religious male high school students were identified as existential spiritual well-being (β= -.46, p<.001), self-identity (β= -.30, p<.001), and mother attachment (β= -.21, p<.001). These three factors explained 61.5% of the variance in suicide probability. CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that improvement in spirituality, ego-identity, and mother attachment for religious male high school students is important to reduce the probability of suicide.

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