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University students' suicidal thoughts and influencing factors
Author(s) -
ENGIN E.,
GURKAN A.,
DULGERLER S.,
ARABACI L. B.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2008.01377.x
Subject(s) - hostility , psychology , somatization , anger , clinical psychology , anxiety , affect (linguistics) , suicidal ideation , psychiatry , poison control , suicide prevention , medicine , environmental health , communication
This research was planned as a descriptive study for the purpose of examining the suicidal thoughts of first‐year university students and the factors that might affect them. The research was conducted with the participation of first‐year students (class of 1992) at Ege University between January 2003 and October 2004. The research data were collected on a form prepared by the researcher to determine the university students' socio‐demographic characteristics and their suicidal thoughts, the trait anger, expression of anger inventory and the brief symptom inventory. It was determined that 2.4% of the students had suicidal thoughts, and 11.2% of the students had previously attempted suicide. The risk factors of the students' suicidal thoughts were determined to be issues of gender, school problems, family relationships, anger expression, somatization, hostility, psychotic symptoms, phobic anxiety, anxiety disorder and interpersonal sensitivity.