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Friendships can help prevent female teen suicide.
2004 FEB 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Adolescent girls who have few friends are much more likely to consider suicide than their popular peers, according to a study of more than 20,000 junior high and senior high schoolers.
Researchers found that girls who were socially isolated from their peers were twice as likely to think about suicide as those who had a large group of friends. Also, those girls whose friends were not friends with each other were also twice as likely to think about suicide as girls whose network of friends socialized together.
"Social network effects for girls overwhelmed other variables...and appeared to play an unusually significant role in adolescent female suicidality," the study's authors wrote in the January 2004 issue of the American ...
- Friendships can help prevent female teen suicide.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Friendships can help prevent female teen suicide.