title: [Externalizing and internalizing problems of adolescent suicide attempters].
abstract: This study aims at comparative analysis between externalized and internalized behavior of adolescents. The girls were grouped into a group of suicide attempters and non-attempters. The group of attempters was patients taken to child departments of Psychiatry clinics after attempting a suicide. Lithuanian students formed the control group of the study. The groups were similar in respect of age, gender and place of living. Suicide attempters demonstrated more evident problems of internalized behavior. Their depressiveness was found to be at the higher levels, also they presented more somatic complaints. There was a statistically important difference on scales of depressiveness (p < or = 0.001) and somatic complaints (p < or = 0.001). The suicide attempters also reported a bigger number of other problems than girls of control group did. The values of subscales of aggression and delinquency were much higher than ones in the control group (p < or = 0.001). The research shows that the attempters often have not only emotional problems, but also are more aggressive and demonstrate more behavioral problems than the rest of children. Disobedience in relationships with adults and breaking of existing rules are those symptoms of conduct disorder, which have the strongest relationship with suicidal attempts among adolescent girls. Depression symptoms of sad mood and suicidal thinking had the strongest relation to suicidal attempts of the adolescents.
authors.affiliation: VU Socialines pediatrijos ir vaiku psichiatrijos klinika, Vytauto 15, 2004 Vilnius. Virginija.Ribakoviene@vrc.vu.lt
authors.forename: Virginija
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ribakoviene
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000465:Algorithms; D002648:Child; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires