Relationship between psychopathologies and suicidal ideation in school adolescents in Colombia

Abstract

Introduction: According to studies, adolescence is a period of high vulnerability for the development of psychopathologies and the appearance of suicidal behavior, its presence and increase becoming increas-ingly evident at a younger age. Objective: Was to analyze the relationship between psychopathology and suicidal ideation in adolescents schooling. Method: Non-experimental study a correlational descriptive, from the Adolescent Personality Assessment Inventory and the Positive and Negative Suicidal Ideation Inventory. 249 adolescents, (134 women and 115 men), with ages between 12 and 17 years and schooling between the sixth and eleventh grade selected by stratified sampling. Results: Descriptive and factorial analyses reveal greater presence of psychopathological symptoms related to somatic complaints and mania (12,4 %), schizophrenia and anxiety-related disorders (8,8 %), and depression (7,6 %); suicide ideation was reported between medium and high levels in 48,5 % of participants. With respect to correlation, exploratory factorial analysis yields two factors: the first, includes schizophrenia scales (0,76), anxiety (0,67), anxiety-related disorders (0,66), paranoia (0,65), somatization (0,60), boundary traits (0,47), depression (0,46) and mania (0,43) and is related to positive suicidal ideation (0,24); and the second, includes depression scales (0,46) and limiting traits (0,47) and are associated with negative suicidal ideation (0,79). Conclusion: that while the psychopathologies evaluated are related to suicidal ideation, only the pathol-ogies of depression and limiting traits correlate with suicidal thoughts, specifically, the others, are related to the deficiency of protective factors.