TY - JOUR PY - 2014// TI - Grief and attitudes toward suicide in peers affected by a cluster of suicides as adolescents JO - Suicide and life-threatening behavior A1 - Abbott, Caroline H. A1 - Zakriski, Audrey L. SP - 668 EP - 681 VL - 44 IS - 6 N2 - Eighty-five young adults exposed to a cluster of peer suicides as adolescents completed measures of attitudes toward suicide, grief, and social support. Closeness to the peers lost to suicide was positively correlated with grief and the belief that suicide is not preventable, with grief further elevated in close individuals with high social support from friends. Overall, social support was related to healthy attitudes about suicide including preventability, yet it was also related to some stigmatizing beliefs. Compared with 67 young adults who had not been exposed to a suicide cluster, the exposed sample was more likely to think that suicide is normal but more likely to think of it as incomprehensible.
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LA - en SN - 0363-0234 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12100 ID - ref1 ER -