Citation

Landa-Blanco M, Urtecho-Osorto R, Mercado M, Aguilar-Chávez. Av. Psicol. Latinoam. 2022; 40(1).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Programa de Psicología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad del Rosario)

DOI

10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/apl/a.8537

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Suicide risk is defined as the possibility of a person deliberately taking his/her own life; this is considered a self-destructive behavior with multifactorial causes. This research aimed to determine the psychological factors associated with suicide risk in university students. This was done through a quantitative, non-experimental approach. The sample consisted of 1.696 undergraduate students, 54.7 % female and 43.6 % male students. Questionnaires were applied to evaluate meaning in life, depression, hope, loneliness, interpersonal support, and suicide risk. The results indicated that 50 % of the participants reported never having suicidal thoughts. However, 26.8 % had had a passing thought about committing suicide, 9.9 % had thought of a specific (but unexecuted) plan to commit suicide, 5.8 % reported a previous suicide attempt without the intention of actually committing suicide, 5 % had made plans to take their own life with a real intention to commit the act, and 2.4 % had made at least one suicide attempt with a desire to die.

RESULTS indicate that there is a significant inverse relation between suicide risk and hope, the presence and search for a meaning in life, and interpersonal support. However, a higher suicide risk is positively correlated with loneliness and depression. These results are discussed according to their implications in clinical practice. © 2022, Fundacion para el Avance de la Psicologia. All rights reserved.

Language: es

Keywords

mental health; Suicide; depression; hope; meaning in life; interpersonal support