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Personality, parental rearing behaviour and parental loss in attempted suicide: a comparative study
Author(s) -
Benjaminsen S.,
Krarup G.,
Lauritsen R.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1990.tb01408.x
Subject(s) - personality , psychology , eysenck personality questionnaire , clinical psychology , suicide attempt , psychiatry , poison control , suicide prevention , personality disorders , injury prevention , big five personality traits , medicine , medical emergency , extraversion and introversion , social psychology
Thirty psychiatric patients (aged 18‐29) who had attempted suicide were compared with 2 matched control groups, one consisting of nonsuicidal psychiatric patients and the other of normal subjects, for personality patterns, parental rearing practices and personal loss before the age of 15. The instruments used were the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), the Lazare‐Klerman‐Armor Trait Scale (LKAS), the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) and the Own Memories of Child‐Rearing Experiences (EMBU). Patients admitted for suicide attempts differed significantly from normals on several personality dimensions, whereas suicide attempters did not have personality characteristics that made them substantially different from nonsuicidal psychiatric controls. The suicide attempters had experienced significantly more negative and less positive parental rearing factors than normals, but no difference was found between suicidal and nonsuicidal patients for own memories of parental rearing patterns. Parental loss due to divorce had occurred significantly more often among suicide attempters than among both nonsuicidal psychiatric patients and normals.