Impact of suicide attempts by family members or peers negatively affects suicidal ideation among survivors. In South Korea, where its suicide rate is the highest among OECD countries, exposure to suicide attempts in relationships may be a serious fact...
Impact of suicide attempts by family members or peers negatively affects suicidal ideation among survivors. In South Korea, where its suicide rate is the highest among OECD countries, exposure to suicide attempts in relationships may be a serious factor associated with suicide. This study examined the impact of suicide attempts by family members and peers on survivors’ suicidal ideation, and the mediating effect of depressive mood in the relationship between suicide attempts by family members and peers and suicidal ideation among adolescents. Data were analyzed which was collected through a survey of a total of 549 students from five middle schools that agreed to participated out of six schools randomly selected from 6 school districts of the Seoul and Inchon Metropolitan areas. Multiple linear regression and Z mediation test analyses were used for analysis. The results show that exposure to suicide attempts by family members and peers had a significant effect on suicidal ideation (p=.001), and that there found a partial mediating effect of depressive mood was observed, that is, there is the direct impact of exposure to suicide attempts on suicidal ideation without being mediated by depressive mood. These findings suggest that special attention needs to be given to adolescents who were exposed to significant other’s suicidal attempts regardless of having depressive mood.