Self-Harm and Suicidal Behaviors in Hong Kong Adolescents: Prevalence and Psychosocial Correlates

Table 4

Means and standard deviations of self-harm and suicidal behavior in different groups by gender, immigrant status, family economic status, and parental marital status.

	DSH				SB
	Mean	SD	Statistics		Mean	SD	Statistics
Gender
Male	.03	.10	t = −2.23	.03	.05	.14	t = −5.40	.00
Female	.04	.10			.08	.18
Immigrant status
Hong Kong	.04	.10	t = −1.10	.27	.07	.16	t = 1.56	.12
Mainland China	.03	.09			.06	.17
Family economic status
Not receiving CSSA	.04	.09	t = 0.34	.74	.06	.15	t = 2.34	.02
Receiving CSSA	.04	.10			.09	.19
Parental marital status
Divorced	.05	.13	F = 4.48	.00 ^a	.07	.17	F = 7.94	.00 ^b
Separated	.05	.09			.09	.19
Married	.04	.09			.05	.15
Remarried	.07	.13			.12	.22
Others	.05	.12			.09	.19

^aTukey’s HSD post hoc test showed that significant difference in DSH exists between married and remarried parental marital status.
^bTukey’s HSD post hoc test showed that significant difference in SB exists between married and remarried parental marital status.