Research Center for Behavior Assessment. Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain).
Span J Psychol. 2018 Apr 10;21:E10. doi: 10.1017/sjp.2018.12.
In recent years, suicide rates have increased in adolescents and the young population, so these age groups are considered as populations at risk. Considering that suicidal ideation is the first sign of possible future suicide behavior, the objective of this study is to determine the relative importance of psychological maturity, personality, depression and life satisfaction in predicting suicidal ideation in adolescents. Results show that depressive symptoms is the variable that best predicts suicidal ideation, but psychological maturity, life satisfaction and emotional stability are predictors as well (R2 = .51, p < .001). However, the Multigroup Structural Equation Models analyses carried out show that emotional stability has an indirect relationship with suicidal ideation, through its relationship with depressive symptoms, life satisfaction and identity. Two Multigroup Structural Equation Models were proposed to better understand the relationships between these variables for each sex. The results show that the fit of the model that includes the variable Self-reliance is better for boys than for girls (chi-square contributions of 8.175 for girls and 1.978 for boys) unlike the other model (chi-square contributions of 0.288 for girls and 1.650 for boys). These results suggest that the psychological maturity subscale Self-reliance play a role in suicidal ideation in males but not in females. Although there have been no previous studies on the role of psychological maturity as a predictor of suicidal phenomena, the current study suggests that it is a feature to be considered in the prediction of adolescent suicidal ideation.
近年来，青少年和年轻人群体的自杀率有所上升，因此这些年龄组被视为高危人群。鉴于自杀意念是未来可能自杀行为的第一个迹象，本研究的目的是确定心理成熟度、个性、抑郁和生活满意度在预测青少年自杀意念中的相对重要性。结果表明，抑郁症状是预测自杀意念的最佳变量，但心理成熟度、生活满意度和情绪稳定性也是预测变量（R2=.51，p<.001）。然而，进行的多组结构方程模型分析表明，情绪稳定性通过与抑郁症状、生活满意度和身份的关系，与自杀意念存在间接关系。提出了两个多组结构方程模型，以更好地了解每个性别的这些变量之间的关系。结果表明，对于男孩，包含自力更生变量的模型拟合度优于女孩（女孩的卡方贡献为 8.175，男孩为 1.978），而另一个模型则不同（女孩为 0.288，男孩为 1.650）。这些结果表明，心理成熟度分量表自力更生在男性自杀意念中起作用，但在女性中不起作用。尽管以前没有研究过心理成熟度作为自杀现象预测因子的作用，但本研究表明，它是预测青少年自杀意念时需要考虑的一个特征。
