Stivers C
Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131.
Adolescence. 1988 Summer;23(90):291-5.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents in the United States, and the rates in this age group are increasing. A possible factor related to adolescent suicide may be inadequate or insufficient parent-adolescent communication. The purpose of this study was to investigate the communication level between selected adolescents and their parents, and to determine its relationship to the parents' perceptions of their adolescent's depression and proneness to suicide. The Parent-Adolescent Communication Inventory (PACI) was used to measure communication, and the Suicide-Depression Inventory (SDI) was used to measure depression and suicide proneness. Upon statistical analysis of the instrument scores, simple correlation coefficients expressed significant relationships between mother's and adolescent's scores, but not between father's and adolescent's scores. However, when controlling for other independent variables, neither the father's nor the mother's scores were significantly related to the adolescent's SDI score. The adolescent's PACI score was the only independent variable that produced a significant semi-partial correlation coefficient. A multiple regression procedure isolated only one of the independent variables which entered and stayed in the predictor model at the .05 level--the adolescent's PACI score (p = .001).
自杀是美国青少年中第二大死因，且该年龄组的自杀率正在上升。与青少年自杀相关的一个可能因素可能是亲子沟通不足或不够充分。本研究的目的是调查特定青少年与其父母之间的沟通水平，并确定其与父母对青少年抑郁和自杀倾向认知的关系。使用亲子沟通量表（PACI）来衡量沟通情况，使用自杀-抑郁量表（SDI）来衡量抑郁和自杀倾向。对量表得分进行统计分析后，简单相关系数表明母亲与青少年得分之间存在显著关系，但父亲与青少年得分之间不存在显著关系。然而，在控制其他自变量后，父亲和母亲的得分均与青少年的SDI得分无显著关系。青少年的PACI得分是唯一产生显著半偏相关系数的自变量。多元回归程序仅分离出一个在0.05水平进入并保留在预测模型中的自变量——青少年的PACI得分（p = 0.001）。
