Table 1.
Descriptives for Parental and Adolescent Psychopathology Variables
| 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1994 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequencies | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls |
| No suicidality (YRB items) | 84.8% | 75.1% | 84.7% | 77.3% | 81.8% | 82.4% | ||
| Ideation only | 8.6% | 13.1% | 8.2% | 12.3% | 9.5% | 10.4% | ||
| Plan(s) no attempt(s) | 5.8% | 6.8% | 4.9% | 6.0% | 6.3% | 4.6% | ||
| Attempt(s) | .8% | 5.1% | 2.2% | 4.3% | 2.3% | 2.5% | ||
| No parent history of internalizing (diagnostic screening items) | 33.9% | 33.9% | ||||||
| At least one parent w/history of internalizing | 66.1% | 66.1% | ||||||
| No parent history of suicidal episode(s) (modified YRB items) | 52.9% | 59.6% | ||||||
| At least one parent w/ suicidal episode(s) | 47.1% | 40.4% | ||||||
| Means | ||||||||
| Parental warmth, monitoring, discipline (observational coding; 0–1) | .60, .56, .68 | .61, .54, .67 | .55, .55, .65 | .55, .52, .64 | .56, .50, .63 | .56, .49, .62 | ||
| Adolescent internalizing (SCL-90; 0–20) | 5.4 | 6.7 | 5.6 | 6.9 | 4.7 | 7.0 | ||
Note: Observed frequencies and means.