Personality and repeated suicide attempts in dependent adolescents and young adults.
This study compared personality characteristics of subjects with dependence disorders who had previously made a suicide attempt. The population, recruited in France, Belgium, and Switzerland, was composed of 570 subjects (225 females, 345 males, mean age = 27.3, SD = 8.5). The subjects' psychological dimensions were investigated by means of several self-report questionnaires including: BDI-13 (Beck), Sensation-Seeking Scale (Zuckerman), Toronto Alexithymia Scale (Taylor), Interpersonal Dependency Inventory (Hirschfeld), MMPI-2, and some additional scales. For most dimensions, repeat attempters, both past and recent, but more specifically the recent repeaters, had a more severe psychological profile compared to the other suicide attempters.
Laget
Jacques
J
University Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Plancherel
Bernard
B
Stéphan
Philippe
P
Bolognini
Monique
M
Corcos
Maurice
M
Jeammet
Philippe
P
Halfon
Olivier
O
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000855:Anorexia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D002032:Bulimia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D012008:Recurrence; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*