Citation

Laget J, Plancherel B, Stephan P, Bolognini M, Corcos M, Jeammet P, Halfon O. Crisis 2006; 27(4): 164-171.

Affiliation

University Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Publisher Hogrefe Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17219748

Abstract

This study compared personality characteristics of subjects with dependence disorders who had previously made a suicide attempt. The population, recruited in France, Belgium, and Switzerland, was composed of 570 subjects (225 females, 345 males, mean age = 27.3, SD = 8.5). The subjects' psychological dimensions were investigated by means of several self-report questionnaires including: BDI-13 (Beck), Sensation-Seeking Scale (Zuckerman), Toronto Alexithymia Scale (Taylor), Interpersonal Dependency Inventory (Hirschfeld), MMPI-2, and some additional scales. For most dimensions, repeat attempters, both past and recent, but more specifically the recent repeaters, had a more severe psychological profile compared to the other suicide attempters.

Language: en