TY - JOUR PY - 2016// TI - Contrasts between young males dying by suicide, those dying from other causes and those still living: observations from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent to Adult Health JO - Archives of suicide research A1 - Feigelman, William A1 - Joiner, Thomas A1 - Rosen, Zohn A1 - Silva, Caroline A1 - Mueller, Anna S. SP - 389 EP - 401 VL - 20 IS - 3 N2 - OBJECTIVES: Utilizing Add Health longitudinal data, we compared 21 male suicide casualties to 10,101 living respondents identifying suicide correlates.

METHOD: 21 suicide decedents completed surveys in 1994/1995 (Wave 1) and 11 completed at Wave 3; responses were compared with Chi-square and oneway ANOVA tests.

RESULTS: Suicide decedents were prone to higher delinquency and fighting at Wave 1, but not at Wave 3. At Wave 1 suicide decedents remained undistinguished from living respondents in depression, self-esteem, and drug uses. Yet, after Wave 3, the 11 respondents dying by suicide showed significantly higher depression, drug use and lower self-esteem.

CONCLUSION: Delinquency trends can readily understood, but more complex causes are needed to account for unexpected changes in self-esteem, depression and drug uses.

Language: en

LA - en SN - 1381-1118 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2015.1104270 ID - ref1 ER -