Community Mental Health Journal

, Volume 52, Issue 5, pp 574–581 | Cite as

An Integrated Model of Suicidal Ideation in Transcultural Populations of Chinese Adolescents

  • Cyrus L. K. Leung
  • Sylvia Y. C. L. Kwok
  • Chloe C. Y. Ling
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Abstract

This study tested the model of suicidal ideation, incorporating family and personal factors to predict suicidal ideation with hopelessness as a mediating factor in the Hong Kong sample, to a sample in Shanghai. Using MGSEM, the study aims to investigate the personal correlates and the family correlates of suicidal ideation in Hong Kong and Shanghai adolescents. We integrated the family ecological and diathesis-stress-hopelessness models of suicidal ideation in connecting the correlates. A cross-sectional design was used. The full model achieved metric invariance and partial path-loading invariance. Family functioning and social problem solving negatively predicted hopelessness or suicidal ideation in both the Hong Kong and Shanghai adolescents. The results supported an integrative approach in facilitating parent-adolescent communication and strengthening family functioning, and reducing the use of negative social problem-solving styles in adolescent suicide prevention.

Keywords

Suicidal ideation Family functioning Social problem solving Emotional competence Hopelessness Chinese adolescents 
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Notes

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank CLASS Research Grant of the City University of Hong Kong for subsidizing this research.

Compliance with Ethical Standards

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Ethical Standard

All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

Informed Consent

Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Cyrus L. K. Leung
    • 1
  • Sylvia Y. C. L. Kwok
    • 1
  • Chloe C. Y. Ling
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of Applied Social SciencesCity University of Hong KongKowloonHong Kong
  2. 2.School of Social SciencesCaritas Institution of Higher EducationNew TerritoriesHong Kong

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