title: Exploratory study of the relations between sadistic traits and suicidality in a nonclinical sample of adolescents.
abstract: The present study explored the relations between sadistic traits and suicidality in nonclinical adolescents. Participants were 615 high-school students who completed self-report questionnaires. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that self-reported sadistic traits explained unique variance in self-reported suicidality among both genders. This result is confronted with the psychodynamic hypothesis linking sadism turned inward and suicidality.
authors.affiliation: Université de Toulouse, Le Mirail, France. chabrol@univ-tlse2.fr
authors.forename: Henri
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chabrol
authors.forename: Nikki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: van Leeuwen
authors.forename: Rachel F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Rodgers
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012448:Sadism / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology