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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-7-28
pubmed:abstractText
Temperamental features are strongly associated with suicidal behaviors both in general population and clinical samples. In the present study we considered the association between personality traits, measured by Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), and suicidal behavior. We analyzed five samples: a German control sample of 1148 healthy individuals; 144 German suicide attempters affected by Mood (n=101), Schizophrenia spectrum (n=20) and Borderline Personality (n=23) Disorders; 46 Italian suicide attempters affected by Mood Disorders (UP=15; BP=31); 76 German non-suicide Mood Disorder patients; 147 Italian non-suicide Mood Disorder patients. Suicide attempters showed higher scores in Harm Avoidance (HA) and lower scores in Self-Directedness (SD) and Cooperativeness (C), when compared to controls. Nevertheless, comparing the German and the Italian suicide attempter groups with the non-suicide Mood Disorder patient groups, no differences were detected. This could be due to the effect of Mood Disorder on personality. In conclusion, the present study reveals the difficulty to disentangle the personality profile of suicide attempters from their psychopathology. Those findings may be useful for cautions in further dissecting this complex phenotype.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0022-3956
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
42
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
938-45
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Borderline Personality Disorder, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Character, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Cooperative Behavior, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Female, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Harm Reduction, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Internal-External Control, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Male, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Mood Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Personality Inventory, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Psychometrics, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Risk Factors, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Schizophrenia, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Schizophrenic Psychology, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Suicide, Attempted, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Temperament, pubmed-meshheading:18054960-Young Adult
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Temperament and character of suicide attempters.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Psychiatry, University of Bologna, Viale Carlo Pepoli 5, 40123 Bologna, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article