Childhood maltreatment and suicide ideation: A possible mediation of social support

作者：Roland Donald Ahouanse, Wei Chang, Hailiang Ran, Die Fang, Yusan Che, Wen-Hang Deng, Sifan Wang, Junwei Peng, Lin Chen, Yuanyuan Xiao · 发表于：World Journal of Psychiatry · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.5498/wjp.v12.i3.483 · 被引用次数：18 · 研究领域：Suicide and Self-Harm Studies、Child Abuse and Trauma、Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse

BACKGROUND: Existing literature suggests a positive link between childhood maltreatment (CM) and suicide ideation (SI). Nevertheless, whether social support significantly mediates this association remains unknown AIM: To investigate whether social support significantly mediates the association between CM and SI. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study of 4732 adolescents from southwest China, we intended to discuss the association between CM and multiple types of SI. In addition, the mediation of major types of social support in this association was also investigated. A self-administrated questionnaire was used to collect the data. A series of multivariate logistic regression models were employed to estimate the association between different types of CM, social support, and SI. The possible mediation of social support in the association between CM and SI was assessed using the path model. RESULTS: parental support presented as a significant mediator in the association between emotional maltreatment, both abuse and neglect, and all three types of SI: 1-wk, 1-year, and lifetime. Parental social support mediated 5.31% and 29.23%, 4.80% and 24.50%, and 7.04% and 44.42% of the overall emotional abuse-SI and emotional neglect-SI associations, respectively. CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that improving parental social support might be effective in preventing suicidal risk related to childhood emotional maltreatment in adolescents.