[Selected coping resources and critical situations as the risk factors of adolescent's suicide attempts].
The study investigated the relationship between adolescent's coping styles, social support and stressful life event self-assesing. Three groups, aged from 14 to 19 years, (n=300) participating in a questionnaire study were compared. All the participants gave their consent to participation in this study. The first group was: young suicide attempters (n=100) hospitalized at Clinic of Acute Poisoning; the second: students after-primary schools (n=100), declared having experience of stressful life event in previous two years, with no suicide ideations; the third: students after-primary schools (n=100), declared having experience of stressful life event in previous two years, with suicide ideations. Conclusion is that young suicide attempters are not able to cope with stress as effectively as adolescents with no suicidal ideations. Suicide attempters and adolescents with suicidal ideation have no proper social support from parents, but suicide attempters get a lot of support from peers. They experience more stressful situations and especially family and school problems difficult to solve. Suicide prevention programme seems to be an essential need for adolescents threatened with suicide.
Marczyńska-Wdówik
Agnieszka M
AM
Kliniki Ostrych Zatruć Instytutu Medycyny Pracy w Lodzi. marczynska@wp.pl
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003863:Depression; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012307:Risk Factors; D012650:Self Disclosure; D012944:Social Support; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires