Wenz F V
Adolescence. 1979 Spring;14(53):19-30.
The purpose of this research is to assess the relationship between adolescent alienation and a number of sociological factors in a sample adolescent suicide attempts from a northern metropolitan area. First, Dean's alienation scale is employed and the distribution of responses of the adolescent suicide attempts are analyzed. Second a number of sociological variables are examined by means of multiple regression procedures. In the regression analysis, eight variables were found to be statistically significant-in descending order: social contact with peers in the neighborhood, conflict with parents, broken romance, economic status of parents, communication blockage with parents, school performance, stepparents, and broken romance, These variables have been salient in previous research and theorizing about adolescent suicidal behavior. The fact that adolescence, by itself, seems to be a good predictor of whether or not a person will attempt suicide strongly suggests that there is something about the condition of adolescence which underlies this type of behavior. One possibility is that biological maturation is itself the crucial variable. Alternatively, the argument which follows concentrates on a major sociological aspect of adolescence-the adolescent's relative alienation from institutionalized social life. Alienation may be endemic to the period of adolescence.
本研究的目的是评估在来自北部大都市地区的青少年自杀未遂样本中，青少年疏离感与若干社会学因素之间的关系。首先，采用迪恩的疏离感量表，并分析青少年自杀未遂者的反应分布。其次，通过多元回归程序检验若干社会学变量。在回归分析中，发现有八个变量具有统计学意义，按降序排列为：与邻里同龄人社交、与父母冲突、恋爱关系破裂、父母经济状况、与父母沟通障碍、学业成绩、继父母以及恋爱关系破裂。这些变量在先前关于青少年自杀行为的研究和理论中一直很突出。青春期本身似乎是一个人是否会尝试自杀的良好预测指标，这一事实强烈表明，青春期的某些状况是这类行为的潜在原因。一种可能性是生物成熟本身就是关键变量。或者，接下来的论点集中在青春期的一个主要社会学方面——青少年与制度化社会生活的相对疏离。疏离感可能是青春期特有的现象。
