The Effects of Parental Abuse and Peer Victimization on Adolescent's Suicidal Ideation -The Mediating Pathway of Interpersonal Needs and Hopelessness-

청소년 자살생각에 대한 부모학대와 또래괴롭힘의 영향에서 대인관계내재화와 절망감의 매개효과

This paper designed a mediating pathways model on how parental abuse and peer victimization lead to the development of suicidal ideation through the mediating variables of interpersonal needs and a hopelessness. The development is sure to help reduce adolescent suicidal ideation and, in turn, seek for distinct mediating methods to help teens with suicidal ideas. To validate the suggested model, this paper administered a questionnaire to 768 students in their 10th, 11th and 12th grades of high schools in Incheon, and then analyzed the structural equation model before confirming the research hypothesis by adopting the tools of SPSS 17.0 and AMOS 18.0. The result clearly demonstrates that parental abuse is one of the most influential factors in developing suicidal ideation. Peer victimization, however, had no direct bearing on suicide ideation, only indirectly affecting through the mediating variable of interpersonal needs. In addition, peer victimization had indirect effects on suicidal ideation through a sequential intervention of variables from interpersonal needs to a hopelessness. Based on the above results, this research has following implications: First, this paper analyzed the mediating pathways of youth suicidal ideation resulting from parental abuse and peer victimization. The result could possibly help find preventive measures and effective mediating approaches to save the lives of young people at risk of committing suicide. Secondly, this study proved that the interpersonal needs, a relatively new concept hardly introduced in previous studies, is a significant predictive factor for suicide ideation, serving as an intervening variable of developing suicidal ideation among young people who have suffered parental abuse and peer victimization.

본 연구는 청소년의 자살생각을 감소시키며 자살위험에 처한 청소년을 위한 개입방안을 모색하기 위하여 청소년 자살생각에 미치는 부모학대와 또래괴롭힘의 영향에서 대인관계내재화와 절망감의 매개효과를 살펴보았다. 연구결과, 부모학대는 매개변인을 통하여 청소년의 자살생각에 미치는 영향보다 직접적으로 자살생각에 미치는 영향이 더 큰 것으로 나타났다. 반면, 또래괴롭힘은 대인관계내재화와 절망감에 순차적으로 매개함으로써 청소년의 자살생각에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 연구결과를 바탕으로 실천적 함의 및 후속연구에 대한 제언을 제시하였다.