Clinical and Health Psychology Department, Psychology Faculty, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City 04510, Mexico.
Epidemiology and Psychosocial Research Department, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico City 14370, Mexico.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Aug 15;21(8):1068. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21081068.
Suicide in young people is a public health problem. Typically, protective factors for suicide are not studied; research tends to focus on measuring risk factors. However, knowing the risk factors does not mean that we also know the opposing factors that influence a group's health problems. For this reason, we examined the relationship between developmental assets in Mexican youth aged 18 to 25 years who are not at risk for suicide, exhibit self-injurious behavior, and whose last suicide attempt had low or high lethality. A cross-sectional study of 478 young people (73% female and 27% male) from Mexico City was conducted using an online survey and correlations were tested with dummy variables (groups) and multinomial logistic regression. The no-risk group showed associations with all developmental assets, the self-injurious group had an association with the house rules variable, the low lethality group was correlated with twelve assets and the high lethality group with four assets. Four internal developmental strengths were significant in the regression model: avoidance of risk behaviors, school expectations, resistance to pressure, and expression of anger. These results suggest that PYD is a useful framework for examining suicide risk and promotes skill development in young college students.
年轻人自杀是一个公共卫生问题。通常情况下，自杀的保护因素并未得到研究；研究往往侧重于衡量风险因素。然而，了解风险因素并不意味着我们也了解影响群体健康问题的相反因素。出于这个原因，我们研究了墨西哥 18 至 25 岁、没有自杀风险、有自残行为且最近自杀企图致死性低或高的年轻人的发展资产之间的关系。采用在线调查对来自墨西哥城的 478 名年轻人（73%为女性，27%为男性）进行了一项横断面研究，并使用虚拟变量（组）和多项逻辑回归对相关性进行了测试。无风险组与所有发展资产相关，自残组与家规变量相关，低致死性组与 12 项资产相关，高致死性组与 4 项资产相关。回归模型中的四个内在发展优势具有统计学意义：避免风险行为、对学校的期望、抵制压力和表达愤怒。这些结果表明，PYD 是一个有用的框架，可以用来检查自杀风险，并促进大学生的技能发展。
