Ecological correlations over 29 continental states in a survey indicated that youth suicidality in 1993 was most strongly associated with measures of substance use and abuse, confirming associations consistently found at the individual level of analysis.
LesterD.Alcoholism and drug abuse. In MarisR. W.BermanA. L.MaltsbergerJ. T.YufitR. I. (Eds.), Assessment and prediction of suicide. New York: Guilford, 1992. Pp. 321–336.
3.
LesterD.GattoJ. L.Self-destructive tendencies and depression as predictors of suicidal ideation in teenagers. Journal of Adolescence, 1989, 12, 221–223.
