TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Association between perceived parenting style and adolescents' attitudes toward suicide
JO  - Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
A1  - Choi, Seo-Hyun
A1  - Lee, Sang-Eun
A1  - Lee, Chai Won
A1  - Maeng, Seri
A1  - Son, Jisung
A1  - Kim, Won-Hyoung
A1  - Bae, Jae Nam
A1  - Lee, Jeong Seop
A1  - Kim, Hyeyoung
SP  - 193
EP  - 200
VL  - 31
IS  - 4
N2  - OBJECTIVES: Adolescent suicide, a major cause of adolescent death, is affected by various factors, including attitudes toward suicide. This study investigated the association between parenting style and adolescents' attitudes toward suicide and the mediating role of attitude toward suicide between parenting style and suicidal ideation.     Methods: We surveyed 1,071 adolescents from eight middle schools in Incheon, Korea. The survey included sociodemographic information, attitudes toward suicide, perception of parenting style, depression severity, and suicidality.     Results: Students in the authoritarian parenting group had a more permissive attitude toward suicide compared with the democratic and permissive parenting groups. These students considered that suicide is justified in certain situations and that choosing suicide is an individual's right. They also had a negative attitude toward talking about suicide or intervening in others' suicide. This association remained statistically significant after adjusting for the impact of confounding factors that could affect attitudes toward suicide, except for suicidal processes and preparedness to prevent suicide. In the mediation analysis, we observed that some factors of the attitudes toward suicide mediated between authoritarian parenting attitudes and suicidal ideation, namely, suicide as a right, preventability, suicide as normal/common, preparedness to prevent suicide, and resignation.     Conclusion: This study revealed the significant impact of parenting style on children's attitudes toward suicide. Educating parents about the appropriate parenting attitudes-sympathetic and rational-can help prevent youth suicide.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1225-729X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5765/jkacap.200032
ID  - ref1
ER  -