Parent-offspring conflict and cost-benefit analysis in adolescent suicidal behavior: Effects of birth order and dissatisfaction with mother on attempt incidence and severity

Human Nature

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 190-211

  Andrews, Paul W ^a,b  

^a Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Add Health; Adolescents; Attempted suicide; Birth order; Blackmail; Cost benefit analysis; Parent offspring conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747463983     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-006-1017-8     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Baechler, J. 1979 Suicides, trans. by Barry Cooper. New York: Basic Books.
2. Baumeister, R. F. 1990 Suicide as Escape from Self. Psychological Review 97:90-113.
3. Bergstrom, C. T., and T. C. Bergstrom 1999 Does Mother Nature Punish Rotten Kids? Journal of Bioeconomics 1:47-72.
4. Brinkman-Sull, D. C., J. C. Overholser, and E. Silverman 2000 Risk of Future Suicide Attempts in Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients at 18-month Follow-up. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 30:327-340.
5. Conley, D. 2004 The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed, and Why. New York: Pantheon.
6. Cutler, D. M., E. L. Glaeser, and K. E. Norberg 2001 Explaining the Rise in Youth Suicide. In Risky Behavior among Youths: An Economic Analysis, J. Gruber, ed. Pp. 219-269. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
7. Dawkins, R. 1976 The Selfish Gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
8. deCatanzaro, D. 1981 Suicide and Self-damaging Behavior: A Sociobiological Perspective. San Diego: Academic Press.
9. Ernst, C., and J. Angst 1983 Birth Order: Its Influence on Personality. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
10. Eshel, I., and M. W. Feldman 1991 The Handicap Principle in Parent-Offspring Conflict: Comparison of Optimality and Population-Genetic Analyses. American Naturalist 137:167-185.
11. Ferguson, D., S. Doucette, K. C. Glass, S. Shapiro, D. Healy, P. Hebert, and B. Hutton 2005 Association between Suicide Attempts and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors: Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled Trials. British Medical Journal 330:396-399.
12. Funahashi, T., Y. Ibuki, Y. Domon, T. Nishimura, D. Akehashi, and H. Sugiura 2000 A Clinical Study on Suicide among Schizophrenics. Psychiatry Clinical Neuroscience 54:173-179.
13. Gibbs, J. T. 1997 African-American Suicide: A Cultural Paradox. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 27:68-79.
14. Giddens, A. 1964 Suicide, Attempted Suicide, and the Suicidal Threat. Man 64:115-116.
15. Godfray, H. C. J. 1991 Signalling of Need by Offspring to Their Parents. Nature 353:328-330.
16. Harris, J. R. 1998 The Nurture Assumption. New York: Free Press.
17. 2000 Context-Specific Learning, Personality, and Birth Order. Current Directions in Psychological Science 9:174-177.
18. Hertwig, R., J. N. Davis, and F. J. Sulloway 2002 Parental Investment: How an Equity Motive Can Produce Inequality. Psychological Bulletin 128:728-745.
19. Huott, M. A., and A. B. Storrow 1997 A Survey of Adolescents' Knowledge Regarding Toxicity of Over-the-Counter Medication. Academic Emergency Medicine 4:214-218.
20. Isacsson, G., and C. L. Rich 1997 Depression, Anti-depressants, and Suicide: Pharmacoepidemiological Evidence for Suicide Prevention. In Review of Suicidology, R. W. Maris et al., eds. Pp. 168-201. New York: Guilford Press.
21. Johnstone, R. A. 1996 Begging Signals and Parent-Offspring Conflict: Do Parents Always Win? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 263:1677-1681.
22. Kaplan, H., K. Hill, J. Lancaster, and A. M. Hurtado 2000 A Theory of Human Life History Evolution: Diet, Intelligence, and Longevity. Evolutionary Anthropology 9:156-184.
23. Kilner, R., and R. A. Johnstone 1997 Begging the Question: Arc Offspring Solicitation Behaviours Signals of Needs? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12:11-15.
24. King, C. A., H. Segal, K. Kaminski, M. W. Naylor, N. Ghaziuddin, and L. Radpour 1995 A Prospective Study of Adolescent Suicidal Behavior Following Hospitalization. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 25:327-338.
25. Koplin, B., and J. Agathen 2004 Suicidality in Children and Adolescents: A Review. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 14:713-717.
26. Li, S.-C., U. Lindenberger, B. Hommel, G. Aschersleben, W. Prinz, and P. B. Baltes 2004 Transformations in the Couplings among Intellectual Abilities and Constituent Cognitive Processes across the Life Span. Psychological Science 15:155-163.
27. Linehan, M. 1993 Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder. New York: Guilford.
28. Little, R. J. A., and D. B. Rubin 1989 The Analysis of Social Science Data with Missing Values. Sociological Methods and Research 18:292-326.
29. Mace, R. 2000 Evolutionary Ecology of Human Life History. Animal Behaviour 59:1-10.
30. Marcotte, D. E. 2003 The Economics of Suicide, Revisited. Southern Economic Journal 69:628-643.
31. Mock, D. W., and G. A. Parker 1997 The Evolution of Sibling Rivalry. New York: Oxford University Press.
32. Parker, G. A., and M. Macnair 1979 Models of Parent-Offspring Conflict, IV Suppression: Retaliation by the Parent. Animal Behaviour 27:1210-1235.
33. Resnick, M. D., P. S. Bearman, R. W. Blum, et al. 1997 Protecting Adolescents from Harm: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health. Journal of the American Medical Association 278:823-832.
34. Rohde, P. A., K. Atzwanger, M. Butovskaya, A. Lampert, I. Mysterud, I., A. Sanchez-Andres, and F. J. Sulloway 2003 Perceived Parental Favoritism, Closeness to Kin, and the Rebel of the Family: The Effects of Birth Order and Sex. Evolution and Human Behavior 24:261-276.
35. Salmon, C. A., and M. Daly 1998 Birth Order and Family Sentiment: Middleborns Arc Different. Evolution and Human Behavior 19:299-312.
36. Schneidman, E. 1993 Suicide as Psychache. Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson.
37. Spirito, A., S. Valeri, J. Boergers, and D. Donaldson 2003 Predictors of Continued Suicidal Behavior in Adolescents Following a Suicide Attempt. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 32:284-289.
38. Stengel, E., and N. G. Cook 1958 Attempted Suicide. London: Oxford University Press.
39. Sulloway, F. J. 1996 Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. New York: Pantheon.
40. Trivers, R. L. 1974 Parent-Offspring Conflict. American Zoologist 14:249-264.
41. Wagner, B. M. 1997 Family Risk Factors for Child and Adolescent Suicidal Behavior. Psychological Bulletin 121:246-298.
42. Wagner, B. M., C. Aiken, P. M. Mullaley, and J. J. Tobin 2000 Parents' Reactions to Adolescents' Suicide Attempts. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 39:429-436.
43. Walker, R., and K. Hill 2003 Modeling Growth and Senescence in Physical Performance among the Ache of Eastern Paraguay. American Journal of Human Biology 15:1-13.
44. Walker, R., K. Hill, H. Kaplan, and G. McMillan 2002 Age-Dependency in Hunting Ability among the Ache of Eastern Paraguay. Journal of Human Evolution 42:639-657.
45. Watson, P. J., and P. W. Andrews 2002 Toward a Revised Evolutionary Adaptationist Analysis of Depression. Journal of Affective Disorders 72:1-14.
46. Whittington, C. J., T. Kendall, P. Fonagy, D. Cottrell, A. Cotgrove, and E. Boddington 2004 Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors in Childhood Depression: Systematic Review of Published versus Unpublished Data. Lancet 363:1341-1345.
47. Zahavi, A. 1975 Mate Selection - Selection for a Handicap. Journal of Theoretical Biology 53:205-214.