Attempted suicide among adolescents: A stepwise discriminant analysis.

A sample of 40 adolescents (aged 13–17 yrs), some of whom had attempted suicide (n?=?20) and some who had not (n?=?20), were compared on a number of life history and psychological variables (affective and cognitive). Stepwise discriminant analyses produced 1 discriminant function (the lack of emotional significant other) that differentiated between the groups. This single discriminant function accounted for 77% of the variance in the data. These results are interpreted within the context of the early loss hypothesis. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)