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Personality and Spirituality as Predictors of Suicidality in Depressed Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

S. Mihaljevic ,
B. Aukst-Margetic ,
S. Karnicnik  and
B. Vuksan-Cusa
S. Mihaljevic
Affiliation:
General Hospital Virovitica, Psychiatry department, Virovitica, Croatia
B. Aukst-Margetic
Affiliation:
Clinical Hospital Centre Zagreb, Psychiatry Department, Zagreb, Croatia
S. Karnicnik
Affiliation:
General Hospital Virovitica, Psychiatry department, Virovitica, Croatia
B. Vuksan-Cusa
Affiliation:
Clinical Hospital Centre Zagreb, Psychiatry Department, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

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Introduction

Some studies show that more expressed spirituality and some dimensions of personality have protective role from suicidality.

Aim

The aim of our study is to examine the influence of the spiritual quality of life (QoL) and dimensions of personality on course of suicidality in patients with depression.

Methods

Ninety-nine patients were assessed with self-report measures of suicidality (BHS), personality (TCI), spirituality (WHOQOL-SRPB) during a yearlong follow-up.

Results

Spirituality was inversely linked with suicidality at baseline and during follow-up and more expressed spirituality influenced faster recovery from suicidality. Dimensions of temperament harm avoidance and self-directedeness show as significant predictors of recovery from suicidality.

Conclusion

In our sample, spirituality, harm avoidance and self directedeness are significant predictors of recovery from suicidality. This finding is stimulus for further researching of protective factors from suicidality.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
Oral communications: E-mental health; bipolar disorders; child and adolescent psychiatry; eating disorders; intellectual disability and women, gender and mental health
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S86
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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