title: Maternal and paternal personality profiles of adolescent suicide attempters.
abstract: Personality features have been correlated with suicidal behaviors in recent decades. Given its neurobiological background, Cloninger's model of personality, the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), may help to identify the maternal and paternal personality dimensions associated with adolescent suicide attempts. The present study is the first that specifically compares the temperament and character profiles of both mothers and fathers of the adolescent suicide attempters with a control group, by considering the influence of demographic and clinical factors. The study group comprised 117 parents of 71 adolescent suicide attempters and 119 parents of 71 age- and gender-matched adolescents without a suicide attempt included as a control group. The TCI and Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) were applied to the parents in both groups. Logistic regression analysis, which was performed to adjust confounding factors, demonstrated significantly higher scores for harm avoidance among the mothers and lower scores of self-directedness among the fathers of the adolescent suicide attempters. New psychotherapeutic modalities considering the high-risk parental personality traits would be beneficial to support parent-adolescent relationships and may have a preventative effect on adolescent suicide.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Tepecik Teaching and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey. Electronic address: nurullahbolat@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Nurullah
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bolat
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, İstanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Tayyib
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kadak
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Tepecik Teaching and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Kayi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Eliacik
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Tepecik Teaching and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Enis
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sargin
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Dortcelik Children Hospital, Bursa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Secil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Incekas
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Bakirkoy Research and Training Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Hatice
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gunes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001362:Avoidance Learning; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002605:Character; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D040261:Harm Reduction; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*; D013694:Temperament
keywords: Adolescent; Parents; Suicide; Temperament and character traits