Citation

O'Beaglaoich C, McCutcheon J, Conway PF, Hanafin J, Morrison TG. Front. Psychol. 2020; 11: e111.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Frontiers Research Foundation)

DOI

10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00111

PMID

32153450

PMCID

PMC7047665

Abstract

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.

Copyright © 2020 O’Beaglaoich, McCutcheon, Conway, Hanafin and Morrison.

Language: en

Keywords

Ireland; adolescence; boys; gender role conflict; masculinity; suicide ideation