The Sociological Quarterly 47 (2006) 693–721 © 2006 Midwest Sociological Society 693 The Sociological Quarterly ISSN 0038-0253 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.Oxford, UK and Malden, USATSQThe Sociological Quarterly0038-02532006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.2006474693721YOUNG PEOPLE EDUCATION, AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS Residential Mobility and Attempted SuicideDana L. Haynie, Scott J. South, and Sunita Bose *Direct all correspondence to Dana L. Haynie. Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; e-mail: dlh@sociology.ohio-state.edu RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AMONG ADOLESCENTS: An Individual-Level Analysis Dana L. Haynie* The Ohio State University Scott J. South State University of New York at Albany Sunita Bose State University of New York at New Paltz Building on the Durkheimian legacy’s emphasis on social integration as a determinant of suicidal behavior, many macrolevel studies have observed an association between aggregate rates of geo- graphical mobility and suicide, but little research has explored this connection at the individual level. We use data from 9,594 respondents who participated in two waves of the National Longitu- dinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine the effect of recent residential mobility on attempted suicide one year later and to explore the mechanisms that potentially transmit this effect. We find that among adolescent girls, recent movers are about 60 percent more likely than nonmovers to report having attempted suicide during the following year and that this difference cannot be readily explained by mover versus nonmover differences in preexisting demographic and family back- ground characteristics. Some of the apparent effect of residential mobility on females’ risk of attempting suicide operates through higher rates of victimization and delinquency, lower levels of school attachment, higher rates of social isolation, and a tendency for movers to associate with peers who exhibit delinquent behaviors and who themselves have attempted suicide. In contrast, we find no evidence that mobile female adolescents’ deficit of parental social capital or lower levels of school engagement can account for the difference in attempted suicide risk between movers and nonmovers. We also find that residential mobility is not significantly associated with suicide attempts among adolescent males. Identifying the risk factors associated with adolescent suicide continues to generate con- siderable research interest, especially given that suicide is one of the leading causes of ado- lescent mortality in the United States (U.S. Public Health Service 1999). Moreover, the rate of adolescent suicide has nearly tripled over the past 30 years; suicide is now the third leading cause of death among youth ages 13 to 19 (Brent 1995; Malley, Kush, and Bogo