Bidirectional pathways to suicide: how parent-child interactions shape adolescent depression and suicidality in China
Yan Han, Rongying Sun, Yan Tang, Chunhong Wei · 2026
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Yan Han, Rongying Sun, Yan Tang, and Chunhong Wei published a study in 2026 on how depression and suicide risk move between teenagers and their parents in China. Most past work looked in one direction only, from parent to child. This team interviewed both sides together, since stress in a family tends to travel in loops.
Twelve pairs from a major hospital took part, each with a teenager aged eleven to eighteen who had recently attempted suicide. Four linked themes emerged from the long interviews. Stress passed back and forth, harming parents' bodies as well as teenagers' minds. Every teenager named a parent's emotional state among their triggers. The findings argue for treating the family, not the teenager alone.
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| CREATOR | Yan Han, Rongying Sun, Yan Tang, Chunhong Wei |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 54 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |