2015, Number 3
Strategies and affronting styles in adolescents with suicide attempt
Language: Spanish
References: 20
Page: 606-618
PDF size: 281.41 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: there are some factors in the life of adolescents that are able to produce behavioral changes, the ones associated to the absence of effective affronting strategies to respond to these situations, may contribute to the increasing of de la suicide behavior.Objective: to characterize the affronting strategies of adolescents with suicide attempt in San José de las Lajas, during 2013.
Methods: a transversal, descriptive study with mixt (qualitative-quantitative) methodological approach was carried out. From a universe formed by 36 adolescents, an intentional sample of 29 subjects was selected, it represented the 80.5% of the total of cases. Registered epidemiological surveys in the Community Health Center and clinical histories were analyzed for the selection of the sample and the Affronting Scale for Adolescents was applied. The statistical processing was made by the analysis of contingency by the dócima χ2, using the software Info Stat.
Results: prevalence of female sex (86.2%) was identified over the male sex (13.7%).
Conclusions: the predominant affronting strategies were: Self fault, Reduction of tension and lack of affronting. It was determined a higher use of unproductive affronting style. There were no significant differences in the affronting strategies in both sexes. Unproductive affronting style prevailed in the female sex, and the style directed to the relationship with someone else in the male sex.
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