Introduction

Until now, South Korean adolescent suicidal ideation literature has focused mainly on individual-level characteristics. Little is known about the contextual effects of social integration and social regulation on an individual's suicide behavior in South Korea as identified through the use of Durkheim's sociological insights. This study drew on Durkheim’s suicide and collective efficacy theories and analyzed the effects of the structural characteristics and collective efficacy of neighborhoods on adolescents’ suicidal ideation.

Methods

The data analyzed was from three sources: the 2013 Korean National Survey of the Present Status of Children (n = 1,915; 50.41% girls; mean age = 13.04 years), government census data from the Korea Statistical Information System, and administrative data from the Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare. The Hierarchical Generalized Linear Model was used to investigate the effects of neighborhood structural characteristics and collective efficacy on adolescent suicidal ideation.

Results

There were no significant associations between neighborhood characteristics such as concentrated poverty, divorce rate, and residential instability; however, adoles cents' perceptions of collective efficacy in neighborhoods was associated with lower suicidal ideation after accounting for individual adolescent differences.

Conclusion

The findings provide significant implications for the prevention of suicide in adolescents and suggest that enhancing the collective efficacy of neighborhoods through community-based intervention may be an important target of future suicide prevention strategies in South Korea.

中文翻译：

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邻里集体效能与青少年自杀意念的关系

介绍

迄今为止，韩国青少年自杀意念文献主要关注个体层面的特征。通过使用涂尔干的社会学见解确定的韩国社会融合和社会规范对个人自杀行为的背景影响知之甚少。本研究借鉴涂尔干的自杀和集体效能理论，分析了社区结构特征和集体效能对青少年自杀意念的影响。

方法

分析的数据来自三个来源：2013 年韩国全国儿童现状调查（n = 1,915；50.41% 女孩；平均年龄 = 13.04 岁）、来自韩国统计信息系统的政府人口普查数据以及来自韩国的行政数据韩国保健福祉部。层次广义线性模型用于研究邻里结构特征和集体效能对青少年自杀意念的影响。

结果

集中贫困、离婚率和居住不稳定等邻里特征之间没有显着关联；然而，在考虑到青少年个体差异后，青少年美分对社区集体效能的看法与较低的自杀意念有关。

结论

研究结果为预防青少年自杀提供了重要意义，并表明通过基于社区的干预提高社区的集体效能可能是韩国未来自杀预防策略的一个重要目标。