Associations Between Attempted Suicide, Violent Life Events, Depressive Symptoms, and Resilience in Adolescents and Young Adults

Abstract

Were violent/nonviolent traumatic life events and victimization by/witnessing violence associates of attempted suicide among depressed adolescents who were also less resilient at early adulthood? The present study examined a subset of mainly depressed, age- and gender-matched, adolescents derived from a representative sample of 2464 students (T1, mean age = 13.7 years) followed up after 1 year (T2Q) and reassessed 5 years later (T3, n = 252, mean age = 20.0 years, 73% participation), with a questionnaire, including the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale and The Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Present and Lifetime version psychiatric interviews, which also tapped traumatic life events. Logistic regression analyses revealed that attempters were victims, not witnesses of violence, more depressed, and less resilient than nonattempters, and that resilience was a moderator of lifetime violent events and attempted suicide, even in the presence of antecedent depression.

The Greek Version of the Resilience Scale (RS-14): Psychometric Properties in three Samples and Associations with Mental Illness, Suicidality, and Quality of Life

“…Resilience is associated with lower suicide risk [50][51][52][53]. To assess the relationship between RS-14 scores and RASS scores bivariate correlation analyses were performed followed by partial correlation analyses adjusted for age, sex, education, family status, disease type and comorbidities;…”

“…Low resilience has been found in abstinent substance dependent patients who had attempted suicide [51], while patients with systemic lupus erythematosus at risk of committing suicide presented the lowest resilience scores [52]. It has been also reported that resilience may be a protective factor mitigating the risk of suicidal behavior associated with childhood trauma [50], while resilience has been found to act as a moderator of lifetime violent events and attempted suicide in adolescents and young adults, even in the presence of antecedent depression [53]. Our findings further support the link between resilience and suicidality and provide additional evidence with regard to the validity of both RS-14 as well as the newly introduced scale for the assessment of suicidality risk, i.e.…”

Listening for the Voices of Resilience: A Group of Adolescents’ Experiences With a Suicide Prevention Education Program

“…There appears to be a consensus in research literature that resilience is not a fixed attribute or outcome, but rather is a multi-dimensional and continually changing process (Everall et al, 2006;Richardson, Neiger, Jensen, & Kumpfer, 1990;Rutter, 1987Rutter, , 2001Ungar, 2005). Resiliency has been connected to the area of suicide prevention in numerous recent studies (Everall et al, 2006;Johnson et al, 2011;Nrugham, Holen, & Sund, 2010). In a narrow sense, resilience has come to mean the individual capacities, behaviours, and protective processes associated with health outcomes despite exposure to a significant number of risks.…”

Población escolarizada de estudiantes con intento de suicidio

“…Además, se encontró que más de un tercio tenía un familiar con intento de suicidio. Estudios de referencia como los que destacamos a continuación, muestran como factores asociados con riesgo suicida (RS) el proceso adolescente (Pérez-Olmos, Rodríguez-Sandoval, Dussán-Buitrago & Ayala-Aguilera, 2007;Amézquita, González & Zuluaga, 2008), género femenino y experiencias de abuso físico (Cañón, 2008;Nrugham, Holen & Sund, 2010) e historia de patología psiquiátrica (Leyva, Hernández, Nava & López, 2007;Joe, Baser, Neighbors, Caldwell & Jackson, 2009) entre otros.…”