Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University, Patterson Building, Room 206, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S3Z5.
J Adolesc. 2011 Oct;34(5):1049-54. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.11.003. Epub 2010 Dec 3.
Homeless and street-involved youth are considered an extremely high risk group, with many studies highlighting trajectories characterized by abusive, neglectful, and unstable family histories, victimization and criminal involvement while on the streets, high rates of physical and mental illness, and extremely high rates of mortality. While there exists a substantial body of knowledge regarding risk, in recent years attention has been increasingly shifting to the examination of resilience, intervention, and service delivery models for these young people. The present study describes the findings from a quantitative examination of personal and street-related demographics, psychological distress, self-esteem, resilience, and suicidality among 47 homeless and street-involved youth. Key findings indicate that the apparent erosion of mental health variables, including resilience, occurs as a function of how long the youths have been without stable housing. Finally, those youths' perceived resilience was associated with less suicidal ideation whereas higher psychological distress was associated with higher suicidal ideation, even when accounting for resiliency.
无家可归和流浪街头的青年被认为是极高风险群体，许多研究强调了他们具有以下特征的轨迹：在家庭中遭受虐待、忽视和不稳定，在街头时遭受侵害和犯罪，身体和心理健康问题高发，以及死亡率极高。尽管已经有大量关于风险的知识，但近年来，人们越来越关注对这些年轻人的韧性、干预和服务提供模式的研究。本研究描述了对 47 名无家可归和流浪街头的青年的个人和街头相关人口统计学、心理困扰、自尊、韧性和自杀意念进行定量研究的结果。主要发现表明，随着青年无稳定住所时间的延长，心理健康变量（包括韧性）明显恶化。最后，那些青年的感知韧性与较低的自杀意念相关，而较高的心理困扰则与较高的自杀意念相关，即使考虑到韧性因素也是如此。
