Personality Disorders in Suicide Attempters and Completers: Preliminary Findings
| Autor: | Ginny E. Dilley, James C. Overholser, Stacy R. Freiheit, Craig A. Stockmeier |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject Psychopathy Sadistic personality disorder Absorption (psychology) medicine.disease Personality disorders Comorbidity Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Structured interview medicine Personality Big Five personality traits Psychiatry Psychology Clinical psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Suicide Research. 6:123-133 |
| ISSN: | 1543-6136 1381-1118 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13811110208951170 |
| Popis: | Personality disorders may play an important role in understanding suicide risk. The present study was designed to examine the frequency and type of personality disorder traits relevant to suicidal behavior. Four groups of subjects were compared: Suicide completers (n = 15), suicide attempters (n = 14), depressed natural deaths (n = 13), and nondepressed natural deaths (n = 15). The Structured Interview for DSM-III-R Personality Disorders – Revised (SIDP-R) was used to gather information needed to rate the presence and severity of 11 personality disorders. No differences were observed across groups on the categorical presence or absence of the different personality disorder diagnoses. However, dimensional ratings revealed that suicide completers displayed significant elevations in narcissistic, histrionic, and borderline personality traits. Suicide attempters displayed significant elevations on paranoid, avoidant, schizotypal, dependent, and borderline personality traits. At the level of specific personali... |
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