Affective temperaments, as measured by TEMPS-A, among nonviolent suicide attempters.
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چکیده
BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the role of affective temperaments in suicidal behavior. METHOD Using the standardized Hungarian version of the full-scale 110-item version of the TEMPS-A autoquestionnaire we compared the affective temperament-profiles of 150 consecutively investigated nonviolent suicide attempters (106 females and 44 males) and 302 age, sex and education matched normal controls (216 females and 86 males). RESULTS Compared to controls, both female and male suicide attempters scored significantly higher in the four of the five affective temperaments, containing more or less depressive component (depressive, cyclothymic, irritable and anxious). On the other hand, however, no significant difference between the suicide attempters and controls was found for the hyperthymic temperament. Significantly higher rate of suicide attempters (90.0%) than controls (21.5%) have had some kind of dominant (mean score+2SD or above) affective temperament. Compared to controls, depressive, cyclothymic, irritable and anxious temperaments were significantly more frequent and hyperthymic temperament was nonsignificantly less common among suicide attempters. CONCLUSIONS The findings support the strong relationship between depression and suicidal behavior even on temperamental level, and suggest that hyperthymic temperament does not have predisposing role for suicidal behavior at least in the case of nonviolent suicide attempters. LIMITATION As only nonviolent suicide attempters were studied, our findings should pertain only for this patient-population.
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PSYCHIATRIC AND PSYCHOSOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SUICIDE ATTEMPTERS, WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON AFFECTIVE TEMPERAMENTS, CHILDHOOD ABUSES AND GENDER DIFFERENCES PhD thesis
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of affective disorders
دوره 116 1-2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009