The Effect of Parental Abuse Experience on Suicidal Ideation: Double Mediating Effect of Life Position and Isolation

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The purpose of this study is to determine whether life position and feelings of isolation have a double mediating effect in the process in which parental abuse experience affects suicidal ideation. The subjects of the study were 8,796 elementary, middle, and high school students from the Korea Youth Policy Institute's '2023 Survey on the Human Rights Status of Children and Adolescents', and the double mediation effect was verified using the Macro Process for SPSS program. The research results are as follows. First, as a result of analyzing the mediating effects of life position and feelings of isolation in the relationship between experience of abuse and suicidal ideation, it was found that experience of abuse not only directly affected suicidal ideation, but also indirectly affected suicidal ideation through life position and feelings of isolation. Second, we investigated the total effect, direct effect, and indirect effect of the abuse experience on the dependent variable, suicidal ideation, through the mediating variables, life position and isolation, and the effects of the abuse experience. As a result, both the total effect and the direct effect were found to be statistically significant. Third, the significance of the indirect effects of life position and feelings of isolation in the relationship between abuse experience and suicidal thoughts was verified. As a result, the mediating path from abuse experience to suicidal thoughts through life position, the mediation path from abuse experience to suicidal thoughts through isolation, and the mediation path from abuse experience to suicidal thoughts through life position and isolation were all found to have significant indirect effects. Based on these results, measures to reduce suicidal ideation in adolescents included education and intervention to cultivate a positive life position, efforts to build a social support network and reduce feelings of isolation, preventive intervention at home, and activation of parent education.