Cun-Xian Jia

TL;DR: Sleep insufficiency, insomnia, and daytime sleepiness are prevalent in Chinese adolescents and parental history of insomnia is associated with elevated risk for insomnia symptoms in adolescent offspring, although adolescent-parent correlations in sleep/wake patterns are relatively low.

TL;DR: Religion plays a protective role against suicide in a majority of settings where suicide research is conducted, however, this effect varies based on the cultural and religious context.

TL;DR: In this article, a study aimed to predict the suicidal behavior of Chinese university students by studying psychological measures such as hopelessness, orientation to happiness, meaning in life, depression, anxiety, stress, and coping styles.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors conducted a case-control psychological autopsy (PA) study to identify the risk factors characteristic for young rural Chinese suicides and found that the prevalence of mental disorders was higher among the young Chinese who died by suicide than among the living controls, but was lower than among suicides in the West.

TL;DR: While multiple sleep variables are associated with NSSI, poor sleep quality and frequent nightmares are independent risk factors of NSSP, these findings may have important implications for further research of sleep self-harm mechanisms and early detection and prevention of N SSI in adolescents.