1. A SYSTEMIC SOCIAL DETERMINANT OF SELF-ESTEEM AND SUICIDE The Relative Age Effect Angus Thompson Alberta Centre For Injury control & Research, and the Departments of Psychiatry & Public Health Sciences University of Alberta Presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Association For Suicide Prevention, October 2000, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

2. HOCKEY AND RELATIVE AGE

5. SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT AND RELATIVE AGE

6. CHARACTERISTICS OF THOSE WHO ARE RELATIVELY YOUNG AT GRADE ONE ENTRY Poorer Achievement More Likely Placement in LD Classes Thought To Be Less Intelligent By Teachers Lower Self-Esteem?

9. SUICIDE AND RELATIVE AGE

10. Total312252

11. SELF-ESTEEM AND RELATIVE AGE

13. PROBLEMS WITH SELF-ESTEEM Does Not Correlate With Supposed Outcomes Improved SE No Other Behaviour Change Associations Accounted For By Depression Too Much Whining!

14. TOTAL SELF-ESTEEM AND SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

15. Self-Efficacy Achievement Socialization Depression Hope Suicide SELF-ESTEEM AS AN EPIPHENOMENON Self-Esteem

16. CONCLUSIONS Potential Remedies: 1. Changes in the grouping of children for competitive activities. 2. Further examination of the role of competition in child development. 3. Ensure that every child has much experience with success. Relative age effects on emotional development, and suicidal behaviour are generally left unattended.