Factors associated with suicide ideation among American Indian adolescents: does culture matter?

Data from self-report surveys of 1,353 high school students representing three culturally distinct American Indian tribes were analyzed for tribal differences in factors associated with suicidal ideation. In the multivariate analysis, no single correlate of suicide ideation was common to all three tribes. The correlates of suicide ideation were consistent with each tribe's social structure, conceptualization of individual and gender roles, support systems, and conceptualization of death. These results underscore the heterogeneity of suicide ideation across three distinct American Indian tribes consistent with their cultural heterogeneity. Suicide prevention and screening programs may be difficult to adapt from one tribe to another.

• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Suicide and Life-Threatening Behaviour

• Publication date

  1999-12-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1943-278X.1999.TB00528.XPMID 10636327
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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