Identifying MMPI-2 Risk Factors for Suicide

2017 ◽  
pp. 114-120
Author(s):  
John J. Barreto ◽  
Roger L. Greene
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Safety Factors ◽  
Interpersonal Styles ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Risk Factors For Suicide

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) has six items (150T, 303T, 506T, 520T, 524T, and 530T) that relate directly to suicidal behavior. MMPI-2 items 506 and 520 have explicit suicidal content. When the individual endorses these two items or, better yet, any of these six items, he or she should be queried about them before leaving the clinical setting. When the individual elevates Scale 2(D) and does not endorse any of these items, the clinician needs to evaluate whether there are safety factors protecting the individual or suicidal behavior is not being reported. The MMPI-2 also identifies cognitions, moods, interpersonal styles, and treatment issues among clients that may help identify risk and safety factors for suicidal behavior.

Psychosocial factors of suicidal behavior of adolescents: review of foreign studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
S.E Myrzabaev ◽  
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M.S. Sadyrova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Young People ◽  
Psychosocial Factors ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Psychosocial Risk Factors ◽  
Psychosocial Risk ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Risk Factors For Suicide

This article aims to review research that seeks to find psychosocial factors of suicidal behavior among adolescents. The article deals with the sociological research of European authors who dealt with the problem of suicidal behavior of adolescents and young people aged 14-24 years. Studying these studies, the article shows the psychosocial risk factors for suicide and suicidal behavior among progeny.

scholarly journals Psychological and psychosomatic risk factors of suicidal intentions in adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-75
Author(s):  
E.V. Khramov
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Adolescent Depression ◽  
Foreign Literature ◽  
Extensive List ◽  
Depressive States ◽  
Empirical Illustration ◽  
Risk Factors For Suicide

The article presents an overview of modern foreign studies, which aim to study the psychological, somatic and psychosomatic risks of suicidal behavior of adolescents, and, as an empirical illustration, results of the study of psychological and psychosomatic correlates of adolescent depression and suicidality. A rather extensive list of risk factors for suicide, described in foreign literature, was reduced to four classes: somatic (psychosomatic), intrapsychological, socio-psychological, behavioral. It has been shown that the greatest association with suicidal intentions and attempts belongs to depressive states, however, this association, in most cases, is mediated by other predictors of the risk of a suicide. The results of the empirical study described the main psychosomatic dysfunctions in adolescents’ suicides, usually accompanied by asthenic states.

scholarly journals Suicidal Behavior in Relatives or Associates Moderates the Strength of Common Risk Factors for Suicide

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongsheng Tong ◽  
Michael R. Phillips ◽  
Paul Duberstein ◽  
Weihai Zhan
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Common Risk Factors ◽  
Risk Factors For Suicide

Validity of Proxy-Based Reports of Impulsivity and Aggression in Chinese Research on Suicidal Behavior

Crisis ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing An ◽  
Michael R. Phillips ◽  
Kenneth R. Conner
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Suicide Attempters ◽  
Barratt Impulsiveness Scale ◽  
Single Location ◽  
Aggression Questionnaire ◽  
Community Controls

Background: In studies about the risk factors for suicidal behavior, the assessment of impulsiveness and aggression often depend on information from proxy informants. Aims: To assess the validity of proxy informants’ reports on impulsiveness and aggression in China. Methods: Modified Chinese versions of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-CV) and the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (AQ-CV) were administered to 131 suicide attempters treated at a hospital in rural China, to coresident relatives about the attempters, to 131 matched community controls, and to coresident relatives about the controls. Results: BIS-CV and AQ-CV total scores and subscale scores were all significantly higher for suicide attempters than for matched controls. Proxy informants considered subjects slightly more impulsive and aggressive than the subjects reported themselves. Subject-proxy concordance for total BIS-CV and AQ-CV scores were excellent for both attempters and controls (ICCs = 0.76–0.83). Concordance for the three BIS-CV subscales was 0.74–0.81 for attempters and 0.74–0.83 for controls. Concordance for the five AQ-CV subscales was 0.66–0.85 for attempters and 0.56–0.82 for controls. Limitations: Results are based on respondents from a single location in rural China. Conclusions: The results support the validity of the BIS-CV and AQ-CV and of research on suicidal behavior in China that uses proxy-based reports of impulsiveness and aggression.

Protective Factors and Suicidality in Members of Arab Kindred

Crisis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami Hamdan ◽  
Nadine Melhem ◽  
Israel Orbach ◽  
Ilana Farbstein ◽  
Mohammad El-Haib ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Composite International Diagnostic Interview ◽  
Diagnostic Interview ◽  
Suicidal Risk ◽  
Arab Population ◽  
Psychiatric Interview ◽  
History Of

Background: Relatively little is known about the role of protective factors in an Arab population in the presence of suicidal risk factors. Aims: To examine the role of protective factors in a subsample of in large Arab Kindred participants in the presence of suicidal risk factors. Methods: We assessed protective and risk factors in a sample of 64 participants (16 suicidal and 48 nonsuicidal) between 15 and 55 years of age, using a comprehensive structured psychiatric interview, the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), self-reported depression, anxiety, hopelessness, impulsivity, hostility, and suicidal behavior in first-degree and second-relatives. We also used the Religiosity Questionnaire and suicide attitude (SUIATT) and multidimensional perceived support scale. Results: Suicidal as opposed to nonsuicidal participants were more likely to have a lifetime history of major depressive disorder (MDD) (68.8% vs. 22.9% χ2 = 11.17, p = .001), an anxiety disorder (87.5% vs. 22.9, χ2 = 21.02, p < .001), or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (25% vs. 0.0%, Fisher’s, p = .003). Individuals who are otherwise at high risk for suicidality have a much lower risk when they experience higher perceived social support (3.31 ± 1.36 vs. 4.96 ± 1.40, t = 4.10, df = 62, p < .001), and they have the view that suicide is somehow unacceptable (1.83 ± .10 vs. 1.89 ± .07, t = 2.76, df = 60, p = .008). Conclusions: Taken together with other studies, these data suggest that the augmentation of protective factors could play a very important role in the prevention of incidental and recurrent suicidal behavior in Arab populations, where suicidal behavior in increasing rapidly.

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