[The protective factors of suicide probability in religious male high school students]

J Korean Acad Nurs. 2012 Feb;42(1):1-8. doi: 10.4040/jkan.2012.42.1.1.
[Article in Korean]

Abstract

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify the protective factors that influence suicide probability in religious male high school students.

Methods: The data was collected from Nov. 5 to Dec. 10, 2009. Data were collected by self-report questionnaire from 255 students selected from 2 religious male high schools in B city. The instruments for this study were the Suicide Probability Scale for Adolescence (SPS-A), Inventory Parents Peer Attachment-Revision (IPPA-R), Spiritual Well-being Scale (SWBS), and Ego-identity Scale. The data were analyzed using t-test, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe test, Pearson correlation coefficients and stepwise multiple regression with the SPSS 14.0 program.

Results: The protective factors of suicide probability in religious male high school students were identified as existential spiritual well-being (β= -.46, p<.001), self-identity (β= -.30, p<.001), and mother attachment (β= -.21, p<.001). These three factors explained 61.5% of the variance in suicide probability.

Conclusions: The results suggest that improvement in spirituality, ego-identity, and mother attachment for religious male high school students is important to reduce the probability of suicide.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Self Concept
  • Spirituality*
  • Suicide, Attempted / psychology*
  • Surveys and Questionnaires