The phenomenon of hopelessness in suicide attemptors as typological personal categories: age perspective

Authors

  • А. А. Мидько

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18524/2304-1609.2010.4.136218

Abstract

This article is devoted to examining the relationship of personality variables with suicidal behavior and its predictor, the phenomenon of hopelessness (FB) in two age groups:18–29 and 30–39 years. For men in both age groups, the most important char­acteristics allow to differentiate suicide attemptors with FB were low values of the fac­tor of Extraversion, for older women group—constellation of personality traits associ­ated with the experience and expression of anger. We discuss the possible significance of the data in terms of personality typology of suicide attemptors.

Author Biography

А. А. Мидько

A. A. Midko

Published

2010-05-25

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