This research reveals that adverse life events impact suicidal ideation in adolescents, indicating heightened vulnerability during development.
Decades of research link adversity and stressful life events to suicidal ideation, yet most individual risk factors show small effects in isolation, 1 complicating efforts to explain interindividual differences across development. These challenges are particularly evident during adolescence, a period characterised by rapid biological and social change and heightened vulnerability. 2,3
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