Psychological determination of personality types of young suicides

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to identify the factors that determine the formation of a certain type of personality who has committed suicidal attempts at a young age. In order to identify the types of suicides, there was conducted a survey of 25 doctors in psychiatric clinical hospitals in Moscow. The survey results were processed using cluster analysis. To identify the factorial conditioning of suicidal behavior of each personality type, a complex of psychodiagnostic techniques was used, focused on the study of the characteristics of the emotional, value-semantic and behavioral spheres of the personality. The obtained empirical data were processed with the help of factor analysis. Between the ages of 24 and 35, common types of persons with suicidal tendencies are "protester" (negative attitudes toward life and its foundations, repeated attempts to prove oneself right with a high level of pretensions, and low level of development of abilities necessary for self-realization), "self-isolating" (a conviction of their failure and lack of right to life), "self-destructive" (excessive self-criticism and self-blaming).