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Citation

Diekstra RFW. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 1985; 15(1): 27-42.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1985, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3992615

Abstract

An attempt is made to explain the increase in adolescent suicidal behavior reported for most countries in the European Economic Community over the last two decades, within the framework of a social learning theory. A typology of suicidal acts based on an outcome-expectancy model is proposed that would make intelligible the observed positive correlation between the incidence of lethal and nonlethal suicidal acts, the latter having grown to epidemic proportions among the young. This epidemic can be attributed to the interplay of three groups of factors, namely, the socialization of a specific problem-solving behavior repertoire, socioeconomic conditions, and attitudes toward suicide. The implications for suicide prevention are briefly discussed.

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