Birth order: Self-injurious and suicidal behaviour among adolescents

Psychology, Health and Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 9-16

  Kirkcaldy, Bruce ^a   Richardson Vejlgaard, Randall ^b   Siefen, Georg ^c  

^a International Centre for the Study of Occupational and Mental Health   (Germany)

^b New York State Psychiatric Institute ^*  (United States)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Birth order; Psychiatry; Self injury; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BIRTH ORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH ORDER; CHILD; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57649201203     PISSN: 13548506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13548500801983058     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Abdel-Khalek, A.M., & Lester, D. (2007). Sibship size, birth order, and personality among Kuwaiti college students. Psychological Reports, 101(1), 53-54.
2. Adler, A. (1964). Problems of neurosis. New York: Harper and Row.
3. Ahmed, K., & Lynn, R. (2008). Intelligence, family size and birth order: Some data from Kuwait. Personality and Individual Differences, 44(4), 989-999.
4. Averett, S. (2006). Birth order and risky adolescent behaviour. Economic Inquiry, 44(2), 215-233.
5. Belmont, L., & Marolla, F.A. (1973). Birth order, family size and intelligence. Science, 182, 1096-1101.
6. Bergman, K.J., Carmel, L.H., & Lester, D. (1997). Birth order, suicidal preoccupation and scores suggesting manic-depressive tendencies. Psychological Reports, 80(2), 442.
7. Blake, J. (1981). Family size and the quality of children. Demography, 18, 421-442.
8. Brent, D.A., Perper, J.A., Goldstein, C.E., Kolko, D.J., Allan, C.J., & Zelenak, J.P. (2004). Risk factors for adolescent suicide. A comparison of adolescent suicide victims with suicidal inpatients. Archives on General Psychiatry, 45(6), 581-588.
9. Crouter, A.C., & McHale, S.M. (1995). The family context of gender identification in early adolescence. Child Development, 66, 317-329.
10. Englert, E., Jungmann, J., Lam, L., Wienand, F., & Poustka, F. (1998). Die Basisdokumentation Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie - Merkmalskatalog der Fachverbände für eine gemeinsame Basisdokumentation für Klinik und Praxis. Spektrum der Psychiatrie und Nervenheilkunde, 27, 129-146.
11. Englert, E., Jungmann, J., Wienand, F., Lam, L., & Poustka, F. (2000). Basisdokumentation Kinder und Jugendpsychiatrie. Frankfurt. Available at: www.klinik.uni-frankfurt.de/zpsy/kinderpsychiatrie/Doku/ KJP_BADO_Broschuere.pdf
12. Funahashi, T., Ibuki, Y., Domon, Y., Nishimura, T., Akehashi, D., & Sugiura, H. (2000). A clinical study on suicide among schizophrenics. Psychiatric and Clinical Neurosciences, 54(2), 173.
13. Guastello, D.D., & Guastello, S.J. (2002). Birth category effects on the Gordon Personal Profile variables. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, 1, 1-7.
14. Hawton, K. (2000). Sex and suicide. Gender differences in suicidal behaviour. British Journal of Psychiatry, 177, 484-485.
15. Kidwell, J.S. (1982). The neglected birth order: Middleborns. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 44, 225-235.
16. Kirkcaldy, B.D. (1992). Work attitudes and birth order. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 74, 742.
17. Kirkcaldy, B.D., Brown, J., & Siefen, R.G. (2006). Disruptive disorders, self-harm and suicidal ideation among German adolescents in psychiatric care. International Journal of Adolescent Mental Health, 18(4), 597-614.
18. Kramer, M.D., Krueger, R.F., & Hicks, B.M. (2008). The role of internalizing and externalizing liability factors in accounting for gender differences in the prevalence of common psychopathological syndromes. Psychological Medicine, 38, 51-61.
19. Lester, D. (1987). Suicide and sibling position. Individual Psychology, 43, 390-395.
20. Lester, D., & Caffery, D. (1989). Birth order, depression and suicide. Psychological Reports, 64(1), 18.
21. Lester, D. (2000). Suicide and birth order. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 91, 836.
22. Lester, D., Eleftheriou, L., & Peterson, C.A. (1992). Birth order and psychological health: A sex difference. Personality and Individual Differences, 13, 379-380.
23. Lester, D. (2000). Suicide and birth order. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 91(3;Pt1), 836.
24. Maris, R.W. (2002). Suicide. Lancet, 360, 319-326.
25. Melhem, N.M., Brent, D.A., Ziegler, M., Iyengar, S., Kolko, D., Oquendo, M., Birmaher, B., Burke, A., Zelazny, J., Stanley, B., & Mann, J.J. (2007). Familial pathways to early-onset suicidal behavior: Familial and individual antecedents of suicidal behavior. American Journal of Psychiatry, 164, 1364-1370.
26. Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., Rasmussen, F., & Wasserman, D. (2005). Restricted foetal growth and adverse maternal psychosocial and socioeconomic conditions as risk factors for suicidal behaviour of offspring: A cohort study. Obstetrical and Gynaecological Survey, 60(3), 152-153.
27. Oquendo, M.A., Bongiovi-Garcia, M.E., Galfalvy, H., Goldberg, P.H., Grunebaum, M.F., Burke, A.K., & Mann, J.J. (2007). Sex differences in clinical predictors of suicidal acts after major depression: A prospective study. American Journal of Psychiatry, 164, 134-141.
28. Putter, P. (2003). The effects of birth order on depressive symptoms in early adolescence. Perspectives in Psychology, (Spring), 9-18.
29. Stewart, A.E., & Stewart, E.A. (1995). Trends in birth order research: 1976-1993. Individual Psychology. Journal of Adlerian Theory, Research and Practice, 51, 21-36.
30. Weissman, M.M., Warner, V., Wickramaratne, P., Moreau, D., & Olfson, M. (1997). Offspring of depressed parents. 10 Years later. Archives of General Psychiatry, 54, 932-940.
31. Weissman, M.M., Wickramaratne, P., Nomura, Y., Warner, V., Verdeli, H., Pilowsky, D.J., Grillon, C., & Bruder, G. (2005). Families at high and low risk for depression: A 3-generation study. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62, 29-36.
32. Wong, S.S., Ang, R.P., & Huan, V.S. (2007). Externalizing problems, internalizing problems, and suicidal ideation in Singaporean adolescents: Sex differences. Current Psychology: Developmental, Learning, Personality, Social, 25(4), 231-244.