Department of Sociology, Ewha Womans University, 52 Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 120-750, Republic of Korea.
Int J Public Health. 2019 Mar;64(2):173-184. doi: 10.1007/s00038-018-1169-4. Epub 2018 Nov 7.
Research on youth suicide behavior has emphasized parent-child relations as a critical protective factor. This study investigates whether "too much" regulation of children, i.e., overprotection, may actually increase the likelihoods of youth suicide intent and plan.
Data are drawn from the subset of the Global School-based Student Health Survey (2000-2012), consisting of children living in 48 low- and middle-income countries. Two-level hierarchical linear models are fitted to examine the potential curvilinear (U-shaped) association between parental monitoring and suicide behavior among youth.
Adjusting for individual- and country-level covariates, significant support is found for non-monotonicity specifically among boys: Greater parental involvement in male children's lives lowers both suicide ideation and suicide plan to some extent but, after certain thresholds, increases the odds of both outcomes. Results for girls, however, are much less pronounced.
In resource-poor countries marked by some of the highest teenage suicide rates in the world, overprotective parenting style is found to have negative and gendered consequences on the mental health of youth. More research is needed to confirm its replicability in economically more developed societies.
青少年自杀行为的研究强调亲子关系是一个关键的保护因素。本研究调查了对孩子的“过度”监管，即过度保护，是否实际上会增加青少年自杀意图和计划的可能性。
数据来自全球学校学生健康调查（2000-2012 年）的子样本，包括生活在 48 个中低收入国家的儿童。采用两水平层次线性模型来检验父母监控与青少年自杀行为之间潜在的曲线（U 形）关系。
在调整了个体和国家层面的协变量后，发现父母对男孩生活的过度参与在某种程度上确实降低了自杀意念和自杀计划的发生几率，但在达到一定阈值后，又会增加这两种结果的可能性。然而，对女孩的结果则不那么明显。
在资源匮乏的国家，青少年自杀率是世界上最高的，这种国家中过度保护的养育方式对青少年的心理健康产生了消极的、性别化的影响。需要更多的研究来证实其在经济更为发达的社会中的可复制性。
