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 Humanities and Social Science Research; Vol. 5, No. 3; 2022 
ISSN 2576-3024   E-ISSN 2576-3032 

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Adverse Mental Health of Juvenile Delinquency and Suicide: A 
Bibliometrics Study and Visualization Analysis via CiteSpace 

Guanzhong Hu1 & Xiaohang Chen2 
1 Suzhou Foreign Language School, Suzhou, China 
2 Jiangsu Provincial Reformatory for Juvenile Delinquents, Zhenjiang, China 

Correspondence: Guanzhong Hu, Suzhou Foreign Language School, Suzhou, China. E-mail: guanzhong_hu  

yahoo.com 

 

Received: August 30, 2022; Accepted: September 19, 2022; Online Published: October 4, 2022 

 

Abstract 

Juvenile delinquency and suicide have been growing worldwide, behind which mental health issues cannot be 
ignored. Research status, hotspots, and frontiers in this field were mined in this study. 4681 related publications 
from 2000 to 2022 were extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection, based on which collaboration, 
hotspots, and frontiers of the topic were revealed via CiteSpace. There is a continuous growth of relevant research, 
especially in the last five years. Alan Apter from Israel published the most (49) articles in the field. The USA and 
the University of California System were the leading country and institution with 2603 and 222 articles cited 88964 
and 7891 times, respectively. There was active collaboration between institutions, countries, and authors on 
conducting research on the issues. Hot topics focused on mental health, behavior, depression, prevalence, ideation, 
suicide, substance use, psychiatric disorder, reliability, intervention, and risk factors. Frontiers research includes 
adverse childhood experience, gay, and stigma. Healthy family dynamics (harmonious marital relationship, stable 
family structure, and correct parenting style) is the first layer of defense against juvenile delinquency and suicide. 
And the second layer is positive social determinants (neighbor influence, social support, stigma, and minority 
stress). 

Keywords: juvenile delinquency, suicide, LGBT, adolescents, adverse childhood experiences, CiteSpace, 
visualization analysis 

1. Introduction 

Adolescence is a transitional phase of growth and development between childhood and adulthood. "Adolescence", 
"youth", and "young people" are defined as 10-19, 15-24, and 10-24 years old, respectively. Teenage is defined as 
13-17 years old. Adolescents who are most in need of mental health care are reluctant to seek help, since they often 
experience many troubles, rejections or barriers (Aguirre et al., 2019). Children’s metal health is associated with 
prospective delinquent outcomes. Childhood behavioral problems are highly prevalent among school-aged 
children. 

Delinquency and delinquent behavior are defined as criminal offences of offending behavior with the following 
different offence types: violent conduct, threatening behavior, property destruction, drug offence, theft, sexual 
offence, fraud, motoring offence, and murder (Allen et al., 2018). The amount of juvenile delinquency is on the 
increase. The development of the Internet has accelerated the process. Increasing exposure to internet pornography 
among young people has led to the rise in the number of juvenile delinquents. In recent years, declining ages of 
delinquents and more deteriorative modus operandi have become the trend of juvenile delinquency. White paper 
on juvenile prosecutorial work in China (2021) reported that in 2021 the number of people accepted for 
examination and arrest, and the number of people accepted for examination and prosecution increased by 30.6% 
and 24.2% respectively compared with that in 2017. Decrease in age of juvenile delinquents has become a trend: 
The number of juvenile criminal suspects aged from 14 to 16, who accepted, reviewed, and prosecuted by 
prosecutorial organs, increased by 57.4% in 2021 compared with that in 2017. The number of minors involved in 
telecommunication network crimes increased rapidly. The number of prosecutions in 2021 sextupled compared 
with that in 2020. In addition, the rate of conditional non-prosecution of juvenile delinquency has risen sharply: 
from 2017 to 2021, the number of conditional non-prosecution of juvenile suspect by prosecutorial organs was 
5681, 6624, 7463, 11376, and 19783 respectively, and the rate of conditional non-prosecution in the same period 
was 10.06%, 12.15%, 12.51%, 20.87%, and 29.7% respectively. 



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On the other hand, suicide is a self-injurious behavior to take one’s own life and is a serious public health problem 
(Stone, 2017). Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that suicide rate among people aged 10-24 had 
statistically increased by 57.4% between 2007 and 2018 (Curtin, 2020); meanwhile, the death rate for suicide 
between the ages of 10 and 19 increased by 56% between 2007 and 2016 (Curtin et al., 2018). Suicide was the 
second leading cause of death in girls aged 15-19 and the third leading cause of death in boys (WHO, 2019). 
Juvenile delinquency is a risky behavior; adolescents involved in juvenile justice or child welfare system have 
higher risks to commit suicides (Suk et al. 2009, Farand et al., 2004, Thompson et al., 2006, Corneau et al., 
2010, Catherine et al., 2006). 

Causes of juvenile delinquency and suicide vary widely. Particularities of adolescents change the subjective 
element of an important psychological conditions of juvenile delinquency or suicide. Bibliometrics quantifies 
publications with statistics to analyze their utilization and management (Yi et al., 2022). CiteSpace is a useful tool 
for visualizing and analyzing trends and patterns in scientific literature. The objective of the study was to 
investigate previous and current studies on adverse mental health of juvenile delinquency and suicide, and to find 
out hotspot and frontier researches through CiteSpace. It could also provide an early warning for adolescents and 
their neighbors to prevent juvenile crimes or suicides. 

2. Methods 

2.1 Retrieval of Source Documents 

This study retrieved current literatures on mental issue of juvenile delinquency and suicide through the Science 
Citation Index-Expended version of the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC). All search results were 
acquired on July 19th, 2022. Only articles were included; and the language was restricted to English only. After 
reviewing the titles and abstracts, 4681 publications remained. 

The retrieval period is from Jan. 1st, 2000 to July 19th, 2022. The retrieval strategy is as follows: title= (youth or 
teenage or adolescent or juvenile or nonage or minors or junior high school student or senior high school or middle 
school student) and title, keyword or abstract= (mental health or psycholog* or anxiety or panic attack or 
depression or autism or social phobia or obsession or irritability or bigotry or psychosis or somnipathy or sleep 
disorders or anorexia or somatization or obsessive compulsive or interpersonal sensitivity or hostility or phobic 
anxiety or paranoid ideation or psychoticism) and title, keyword or abstract= (juvenile crim* or teenage crim* or 
adolescent crim* or juvenile delinquent or juvenile offender or delinquent juvenile or young offender or rapist or 
Affray or drug addict or prostitution or manslayer or murder* or homicide or suicide or arsonist or arson or 
poisoning or poisoner or robbery or explosion or human trafficking or drug trafficking or crime or criminal). 

2.2 Visualization Analysis 

CiteSpace was used to figure out the advances in adverse mental health of juvenile delinquency and suicide. The 
analysis focused on the dynamic of the annual number of publications and growth, exploring collaboration 
networks between authors/institutions/countries, identifying co-cited references, as well as capturing keywords 
with strong citation bursts over time, identifying productive authors/institutions/countries, and publishing 
periodicals. A CiteSpace visualization knowledge graph has different nodes and links, and the nodes with high 
centrality usually refer to hotspots or turning points in the domain. The complete records with references retrieved 
via WoSCC were imported into CiteSpace for bibliometric and visual analysis in plain text format. Core topics 
could be extracted through cluster analysis of co-occurrence keywords. 

3. Results 

3.1 Bibliometric Analysis on Publication Year 

The search identified a total of 4681 publications via WoSCC database, whose titles and abstracts were all checked. 
Figure 1 shows the publication number increased rapidly from 34 articles in 2000 to 483 articles in 2021, and the 
year of 2022 will keep the similar level. 

In Particularly, there was a rapid growth in the 2010s. The result indicates that this field received increasing 
attention in the past five years. There is a trend of continuous growth in the coming years. 

 



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Figure 1. Distribution of annual total number of publications 

 
3.2 Bibliometric Analysis on Country and Institution 

The top 10 countries and institutions by the number of publications contributed 4468 articles (95.4%) and 1527 
articles (32.6%), respectively (Table 1 and Table 2). 

 

Table 1. Top 10 countries by number of publications 

NO. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 

Country USA Canada UK Australia China
South 
Korea Germany Netherlands Sweden Spain 

Publications 2603 354 303 299 238 179 124 119 132 117 

Times Cited 88964 9579 10949 8961 3240 2310 3445 3549 3452 2144 

 

Table 2. Top 10 Institutions by number of publications 

NO. Institution Country Publications Times Cited Time Span h-index

1 University of California System USA 222 7891 2000-2022 42 

2 
Pennsylvania Commonwealth System 
of Higher Education 

USA 188 
10833 

2000-2022 51 

3 Columbia University USA 176 11777 2000-2022 51 

4 State University System of Florida USA 167 5350 2000-2022 34 

5 University of Texas System USA 161 4730 2000-2022 38 

6 Harvard University USA 154 7138 2002-2022 42 

7 University of Pittsburgh USA 134 8730 2000-2022 45 

8 University of London UK 110 4392 2001-2021 33 

9 Brown University USA 109 
4600 

2002-2022 33 

10 University of Toronto Canada 106 2483 2002-2020 27 

The country that contributes the most in the field is the USA with 2603 articles (55.6%), followed by Canada 
(7.56%), the UK （6.47%）, Australia （6.39%）, and China （5.08%）. The top 10 institutions are the University 
of California system, Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Columbia University, State 
University System of Florida, University of Texas System, Harvard University, University of Pittsburgh, 
University of London, Brown University, and University of Toronto. Eight of the top 10 institutes are from the 
USA, one is from the UK, and one is from Canada. Top 5 institutes by times cited are Columbia University, 
Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education, University of Pittsburgh, the University of California 



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System, and Harvard University. Top 5 institutes by h-index are Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher 
Education, Columbia University, University of Pittsburgh, Harvard University, and the University of California 
System. 

The results have shown an active collaboration among countries (Figure 2) and institutions (Figure 3). 

 
Figure 2. Knowledge mapping for National distribution network 

 

 

Figure 3. Knowledge mapping for Institution distribution network 

 

In the distribution network of researches in the field, nodes represent countries or institutions, and the node size 
represents the publication number of each country or institution. Larger nodes mean more publications. The thicker 
the line between different nodes, the more collaborations between those collaboration parties are. 

3.3 Bibliometric Analysis on Co-author 

The top 10 authors contributed 286 papers (6.11%) (Table 3). 



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Table 3. Top 10 authors by number of publications 

NO. Author Country Institution Publications Time Span h-index

1 Apter, Alan Israel Tel Aviv University 49 2001-2022 25 

2 Spirito, Anita Italy 
University of IRCCS Casa 
Sollievo Della Sofferenza 

39 2000-2022 20 

3 Kaess, Michael Switzerland University of Bern 30 2011-2022 16 

4 Brent, David USA University of Pittsburgh 29 2000-2022 21 

5 King, Cheryl A. USA University of Michigan  28 2007-2022 21 

6 Bridge, Jeffrey A. USA Ohio State University 24 2005-2022 13 

7 Brunner, Romuald Germany 
Ruprecht Karls University 
Heidelberg 

24 2011-2022 16 

8 Birmaher, B. USA 
Pennsylvania Commonwealth 
System of Higher Education 

21 2000-2021 15 

9 
Cauffman, 
Elizabeth E. 

USA University of California Irvine 21 2001-2022 14 

10 
Wasserman, 
Danuta 

Italy Natl Inst Hlth Migrat & Poverty 21 2012-2020 15 

The most prolific authors are Apter, Alan from Tel Aviv University of Israel (49 papers), followed by Spirito, Anita 
from University of IRCCS Casa Sollievo Della Sofferenza of Italy (39 papers) and Kaess, Michael from University 
of Bern of Switzerland (30 papers).  

The network of co-author was produced by CiteSpace, as shown in Figure 4. 

 

 

Figure 4. Knowledge mapping for author distribution network 

 

Each node represents one author, and the size of the node represents its publication number. The thickness of the 
line between different circles shows the level of collaboration between authors. Productive authors usually had 
stable collaborations with other authors. 

3.4 Bibliometric Analysis on high-frequency Keywords and Cluster 

The status and impact of a certain research content in the field is reflected by its high central keywords, while 
high-frequency keywords may develop the hot topics. The top 30 high-frequency keywords in the field of adverse 
mental health of juvenile delinquency and suicide are shown in Table 4, which cover the following research 



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respects: behavior, depression, risk, prevalence, ideation, suicide attempt, suicide, suicidal ideation, substance use, 
psychiatric disorder, predictor, reliability, intervention, et al. 

 

Table 4. List of high frequency keywords 

Rank Keyword Frequency Rank Keyword Frequency Rank Keyword Frequency

1 
Mental 
health 

1137 11 Suicide attempt 439 21 Predictor 238 

2 Behavior 1022 12 Suicide 419 22 Validity 231 

3 Children 910 13 Youth 416 23 
Gender 
difference 

220 

4 Depression 866 14 Substance use 374 24 Reliability 213 

5 Risk 758 15 
Psychiatric 
disorder 

308 25 Crime 190 

6 Prevalence 729 16 Suicidal ideation 304 26 Meta analysis 185 
7 Risk Factor 719 17 Association 296 27 United States 185 
8 Ideation 539 18 Symptom 278 28 Intervention 183 
9 Adolescent 527 19 Childhood 276 29 Victimization 178 

10 Disorder 521 20 Health 252 30 Population 177 

 

The keywords network is shown as figure 5. There are many intersections among research topics. 

 

 

Figure 5. Knowledge mapping of the occurrence of keywords in publications 

 

Table 5 shows top 6 key co-citation clusters based on frequency, which are prevention, juvenile justice, substance 
use, suicidal ideation, major depression, and trauma. The silhouette value of each cluster is above 0.5, showing the 
results’ high credibility. As for the cluster “Trauma”, relative keywords of which include mental health, substance 
use, adverse child events, parents, and emotional abuse. 

 

 



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Table5. Top 6 key co-citation clusters based on frequency 

Cluster 
ID 

Size Silhouette Mean Label (LLR) Relative keywords 

0 
145 0.539 2012 prevention mental health; nominated support; depression education; 

adolescent depression; school-based interventions 

1 
141 0.678 2008 juvenile justice juvenile justice; mental health; of-home treatment; 

emotional abuse 

2 
141 0.648 2011 substance use mental health; adolescent; behavior; victimization; bisexual 

youth 

3 
120 0.672 2008 suicidal ideation suicidal ideation; suicide attempts; state anhedonia; trait 

anhedonia; care 
4 109 0.700 2008 major depression suicide; children; major depression; risk factor; predictor 

5 
104 0.628 2013 trauma mental health; substance use; adverse child events; parent; 

emotional abuse 

 

The co-citation network is shown in Figure 6. 

 
Figure 6. Cluster visualization based on the document co-citation network 

 

Different research clusters of adverse mental health of juvenile delinquency and suicide are not independent of 
each other; they intersect with other research topics. 

3.5 Bibliometric Analysis on Keywords with Citation Bursts 

Figure 7 describes the frontier research and shows the top 20 keywords with the strongest citation. 

The red line represents the period of the keyword burst, and the green one indicates its time interval. The top 20 
keywords appeared in early 2000s are double blind, placebo-controlled trial, diagnostic interview schedule, 
efficacy, family, psychopathology, fluoxetine, and youth suicide. In addition, several keywords (adverse childhood 
experience, gay, stigma) persisted till 2022, indicating such frontier research is continuing. 

3.6 Bibliometric Analysis on Journals 

Top 12 journals according to frequency of publications in the field are shown in Table 6, five of which are from 
the USA, two from Netherlands, one from Switzerland, one from Germany, and one from the UK. 

The cumulative percentage of related articles (822 publications) published in these 12 journals reaches 17.561% 
of the total. Top 1 is the US Journal “Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior” (124 publications), followed by 
Dutch journal “Journal of Affective Disorders” (110 publications), US Journal “Journal of Adolescent Health”(100 



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publications), and Dutch journal “Journal of The American Academy of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry” (92 
publications). According to the impact factor, top 1 journal is “Journal of The American Academy of Child and 
Adolescent Psychiatry” (IF=13.113), followed by “Pediatrics” (9.703) and “Journal of Adolescent Health” (7.83). 

 

 
Figure 7. Top 20 Keywords with the Strongest Citation Bursts 

 

Table 6. Top 10 journals according to frequency 

NO. Journals Frequency
Percentage

（%） 

Cumulative 

Percentage

（%） 

Impact 

Factor
Time Span Country 

1 Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 124 2.649 2.649 4.532 2003-2022 USA 

2 Journal of Affective Disorders 110 2.350 4.999 6.533 2003-2022 Netherlands 

3 Journal of Adolescent Health 100 2.136 7.135 7.830 2000-2022 USA 

4 
Journal of the American Academy of Child 

and Adolescent Psychiatry 

92 1.965 9.100 
13.113 2000-2021 Netherlands 

5 Children and Youth Services Review 87 1.859 10.959 2.519 2004-2022 USA 

6 
International Journal of Environmental 

Research and Public Health 

77 1.645 12.604 
4.614 2012-2022 Switzerland 

7 European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 66 1.410 14.014 5.349 2003-2022 Germany 

8 Archives of Suicide Research 57 1.218 15.232 2.833 2008-2022 UK 

9 Journal of Youth and Adolescence 55 1.175 16.407 5.625 2005-2022 USA 

10 Pediatrics 54 1.154 17.561 9.703 2000-2021 USA 

 

4. Discussion 

4.1 Basic Summary 

This work analyzed the research status of adverse mental health of juvenile delinquency and suicide through 
CiteSpace, extracted hotspot and frontier researches. 4681 related publications were acquired via WoSCC, from 



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January 1st, 2000 to July 19th, 2022. There has been a continuous and rapid growth in the past five years. The top 
10 countries involved in the field contributed 4468 articles, accounting for 95.4% of the total. The USA contributed 
2603 articles accounting for 55.6% of the total, followed by Canada, which contributed 354 articles. The USA is 
leading in the study of the field. 

Top 10 institutions contributed 1527 high impact publications, accounting for 32.62% of all articles, with the 
average citation frequency of 44.48 times per paper. Eight of the top 10 institutions are from the USA, one from 
the UK, and one from Canada. Institutions with strong scientific research strength are mainly concentrated in the 
USA; Columbia University contributed 176 articles with 11777 times cited. According to the average citation 
frequency, top 1 is Columbia University, which reached almost 67 times per article, followed by University of 
Pittsburgh (134 publications, 65 times per article), Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (188 
publications, 58 times per article), Harvard University (154 publications, 46 times per article), and Brown 
University (109 publications, 42 times per article). The US institutions rank first for the absolute contribution and 
relative influence. If other research institutions want to produce high level research results, they can consider 
taking the development route of cooperation with strong institutions. 

The top 10 authors contributed 286 papers, accounting for 6.11% of all. Alan Apter was the most prolific author 
(49 articles) with the highest h-index of 25. The collaboration network among authors shows that academic 
collaboration can improve research results. People interested in researching in this field can consider collaborating 
with authors and join an academic team to promote the progress of this research field, strengthening research 
outcome. 

4.2 Hot Research Issues 

Keywords of a publication showcase relevant topics and methods within the field. Frequently used keywords are 
adopted to determine largely debated issues in associated bodies of literature. The results of co-occurrence 
keywords and cluster analysis indicated that main current research focused on adverse childhood experience, gay 
or stigma. 

4.2.1 Adverse Childhood Experiences 

The adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) score was first used in 1998 in a seminal medical study to examine the 
relationship between childhood abuse, trauma, and the leading causes of death in adults (Felitti et al., 1998). The 
original 10 ACEs include abuse (physical, emotional sexual), neglect (physical, emotional), and household 
challenges (divorce, incarceration, substance use, domestic violence, and mental illness). The ACEs burden 
children and adolescents worldwide with prevalence rates of 14-55 % for physical abuse, 11-47% for emotional 
abuse, 6-22% for sexual abuse, 7-19% for physical neglect, and 15-40% for emotional neglect (Stoltenborgh et al., 
2015). The ACEs, especially maltreatment, are regarded as significant risk factors for the development of antisocial 
behaviors in adolescence. These experiences lead to a host of negative outcomes, including greater criminal 
involvement and the development of mental health disorders. 

The ACEs presage the likelihood for criminal involvement and development of mental health symptoms for 
justice-involved youth. Such ACEs as childhood maltreatment and household disfunctions are common. Among 
traumatized juveniles, male offenders also had higher scores on the control scale of idealization compared to non-
convicted females (Protic et al., 2020). Traumatic and adverse developmental experiences increase the risk of 
criminality. Those who commit the greatest number and the most violent offenses are referred as serious, violent, 
and chronic (SVC) offenders. SVCs are disproportionately victims of trauma, abuse, neglect, and maltreatment 
during childhood, as compared to the less severe or non-offending juvenile population (Protic et al., 2013; Fox et 
al., 2014; Loeber et al., 2000. The accumulation of risk factors is a major factor for recidivism and the key role is 
played by the contexts and emotional environments in which children and adolescents grow up (Guarnaccia et al., 
2020). Emotional dysregulation resulting from cumulated ACEs may be characterized by symptoms of irritability. 
The ACEs increase the risk of youth recidivism and reoffending (Yohros, 2022). Childhood trauma, abuse, neglect, 
criminal behavior, and other criminological risk factors for offending among 22,575 delinquent youth were 
analyzed, indicating that each additional adverse experience increased the risk of becoming a serious, violent, and 
chronic juvenile offender by 35, when controlling for other risk factors for criminal behavior (Fox et al., 2015). 
The cumulative effects of the ACEs impact youth recidivism or reoffending outcomes. 

Since young offenders are victims of the ACEs as well as perpetrators of delinquent acts, interventions must 
encompass both their personal characteristics and their family circumstances. Such a result indicates that trauma 
leads to tremendous changes in behaviors among adolescents. Some people need a lifetime to heal their childhood; 
some people never get out of the hurt from childhood. Positive parental relationship, stable family structure, and 
healthy parental rearing patterns are the fundamental guarantees for kids to stay away from childhood trauma. 



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4.2.2 Gay 

According to the data from WHO, more than 800,000 people worldwide die of suicide every year, and more people 
are trying to commit suicide. Suicide is a leading cause of death. Millions of people experience or are affected by 
the bereavement caused by suicide every year. Youth and young adults ages 10–24 years account for 14% of all 
suicides. Suicide was the second leading cause of death for people ages 10-14 and 25-34 (Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention). Some population groups are at a greater risk for suicidal behaviors (e.g., suicidal ideation 
and suicide attempts). Sexual minority adolescents experience a high rate of suicide attempts. Lesbian, gay, 
bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth seem to be such a risk group. Today's LGBT youth come out younger 
ages, and public support for LGBT issues has dramatically increased. But they continue to be at high risk of 
compromised mental health (Russell & Fish, 2016). Non-binary trans youth have challenges in accessing needed 
gender-affirming healthcare (Clark, 2018). 

The proportion of homosexual and bisexual youth seeking suicide is five times higher than that of heterosexual 
youth (Hatzenbuehler et al., 2011). The Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide (IPTS) considers that 
suicide ideation is caused by the interaction of perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness. Feeling 
like a burden to "people in their lives" is a critical mechanism in explaining higher levels of depression and suicidal 
ideation among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) youth (Baams et al., 2015). General and LGBT-specific risk 
factors both uniquely contribute to likelihood of suicidal ideation and self-harm in LGBT youth, which may, in 
part, account for the higher risk of these phenomena observed in this population (Liu et al., 2012). Transgender 
youth is a vulnerable population at risk of negative mental health including depression, anxiety, self-harm, and 
suicidality. Transgender youth had a twofold to threefold increased risk of depression, anxiety disorder, suicidal 
ideation, suicide attempt, self-harm without lethal intent, and both inpatient and outpatient mental health treatment 
(all p < .05) (Zaslow et al., 2015). The whole society's acceptance of LGBT youth, correct cognitive therapy and 
timely psychological counseling are important means to avoid their suicide. 

4.2.3 Stigma 

Adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system are reported to have higher rates of STI/HIV infections. A 
limited number of epidemiological studies show that social–ecological factors at the peer, family, school, and 
policy levels are significantly related to unsafe sexual behaviors (Hong et al., 2015). The stigmatization of people 
with obesity, LGBT and, STI/HIV-related is widespread and causes harm (Hatzenbuehler et al., 2011). Many 
adolescents suffer from stigma for their sexual identities. Consequently, they are reluctant to seek help of mental 
health care. Stigma and minority stress are social determinants to good health among LGBT youth. Stigma occurs 
to affect their health at structural, interpersonal, and individual levels. Stigma disrupts cognitive (eg, vigilance), 
affective (eg, rumination), interpersonal (eg, isolation), and physiologic (eg, stress reactivity) processes. These 
stigma-inducing mechanisms can be targeted with both clinical and public health interventions to reduce LGBT 
health disparities among youth. Multicomponent interventions are likely to be most effective in reducing the 
negative health consequences of exposure to stigma among this population (Hatzenbuehler, 2016). 

5. Conclusion 

Through CiteSpace analysis, active cooperation among countries, institutions, and authors was figured out. 
Adverse mental health of juvenile delinquency and suicide have received more and more attention from researchers, 
especially in the past five years. Interests in such an issue has a trend of continuous increase. Current research 
interests include adverse childhood experience, gay, and stigma. Thus, more attention should be paid to the family 
circumstances (marital status of parents, stability of family structure, parenting style), social determinants 
(influence of neighbors or environments, stigma, minority stress), childhood experiences (trauma, adverse 
childhood experiences, abuse, neglect, violence, stigma), individual genetic traits, and LGBT youth to prevent 
juvenile delinquency or suicide. Meanwhile, encouraging to seek help should come with the increased availability 
in mental health support for all adolescents in need, but this is still a major challenge for child and adolescent 
mental health services. Moreover, the betterment of the issue requires a collective action by multiple institutions 
in the society, including families, schools, and individuals. 

Acknowledgments 

The authors would acknowledge Haotian Pan from Jiangsu University, China, for his help in the use of CiteSpace 
and Yan Ming from University of Chicago, USA, for his help in English writing. 

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