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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-12-16
pubmed:abstractText
We investigated the prevalence and explored the vulnerability to suicidal ideation across several ethnic minority versus ethnic majority adolescents in the city of Utrecht in The Netherlands. Exploratory analyses were conducted on a dataset obtained from the Municipal Health Services in Utrecht. We examined whether ethnic minority adolescents are at risk for suicidal ideation because of a family background of migration, social-economic position and certain family factors, which influence psychological constellations. We found that levels of suicidal ideation among adolescents of Turkish background were significantly higher than in both majority and other minority adolescents, The Turkish adolescents at risk for suicidal ideation reported that they do not enjoy being at home with their families. Psychological factors, in particular lack of self-pride and the idea of not becoming successful in life, appeared to be important, as well as feelings of loneliness. Suicidal ideation was not found equally across all ethnic minority groups. A history of migration, ethnic minority status, or low socioeconomic status were not sufficient to explain the variation across ethnicities. Our results suggest that specific social-cultural factors, contextualized in the individual and located in the family environment, are relevant in explaining the disproportionate rates for Turkish adolescents in Utrecht.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0227-5910
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
29
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
202-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Acculturation, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Age Factors, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Anxiety, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Child, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Cross-Sectional Studies, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Depression, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Emigrants and Immigrants, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Ethnic Groups, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Family Conflict, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Internal-External Control, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Loneliness, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Morocco, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Motivation, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Netherlands, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Questionnaires, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Risk Factors, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Sex Factors, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Suicide, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Suicide, Attempted, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Turkey, pubmed-meshheading:19069612-Urban Population
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Suicidal ideation in ethnic minority and majority adolescents in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Sociology, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. D.van.Bergen@fsw.vu.nl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study