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Black adolescents' racial discrimination and suicide behaviors: Testing perceived school safety as a protective moderator

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: = 15.55, SD = 1.23) racial discrimination and suicide behaviors (i.e., suicide ideation, suicide plan, and suicide attempts), and whether perceived school safety was a protective moderator. Furthermore, we tested gender differences in relations, which were not significant. Racial discrimination predicted greater suicide behaviors, and school safety informed less suicide behaviors. School safety moderated the relation between discrimination and suicide plan, such that at low school safety, discrimination predicted having a suicide plan but was not significant at high school safety. Furthermore, school safety moderated the relation between discrimination and suicide attempts. At low school safety, discrimination predicted more suicide attempts, but was not significant at high school safety.

Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence

DOI: 10.1111/jora.12877

Authors: Chelsea D. Williams, Jelaina Shipman‐Lacewell, Shu‐Fang Shih, Alexandra Wynn, María de Jesús Elias, Cecelia R. Valrie

Institution: Virginia Commonwealth University

Language: English

Topic: Suicide and Self-Harm Studies

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Good health and well-being, Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Gender equality

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities