I wanted to do my third journal entry on parenting styles and as I was searching for an article I found one connecting all three of the last subjects we were talking about in class, suicide, cognition and parenting styles together. Since this article connected so much to class I decided it was too much of a coincidence to pass up and decided to write my journal connecting all three subjects, but concentrate mostly on parenting styles and suicide. This article is about a study that was conducted on the early detection of suicidal behavior in adolescence. It studied the relationship between suicide and adolescents' self-reports of perceived parental styles, pessimism, and the spectrum of suicidal behaviors. The study was conducted on three hundred and seven Australian students with an average age of 15.8. The students completed a questionnaire that included demographic details, the Influential Relationships Questionnaire, the Beck Hypothesis scale, and the Adolescent Suicide Questionnaire. The Influential Relationships Questionnaire
The results of this study were 49% of the sample reported ever having suicide ideation, 14% reported having planned suicide attempts without following through, 13% reported having made suicide threats, 30% reported having engaged in deliberate self-harm and 9% reported having made suicide attempts. There was no difference in gender effects in the prevalence of suicidal behaviors. The study showed there was a significant relationship between low parental care and suicidality and high parental overprotection and suicidality. There was also a strong relationship between high parental criticism and suicidality. So to connect all this information together an authoritarian parenting style attributes to feelings of hopelessness that in turn leads to depression which could eventually lead to suicide.
The last point I am going to bring up is the relationship between hopelessness and suicide. This study defined pessimism as the cognitive dimension of hopelessness. An Adolescents' perceptions of parental styles were assumed to predate co
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