Intrapsychic symptom dimensions of adolescent suicide attempters.
The research literature on adolescent suicide is unclear as to whether psychopathology underlies the suicide attempt. A group of 46 adolescent suicide attempters were compared with a group of 46 adolescent nonattempters to determine whether suicidal adolescents differed from this comparison group in characteristics of psychopathology. The findings indicated that the attempters exceeded nonattempters on 8 of 11 measures of psychopathology. Such findings suggest that adolescent suicide attempters emit clear signs of psychological distress that can be detected by physicians treating this population.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012649:Self Concept; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires