Clinical and personal and psychological characteristics of mothers of female adolescents who made a suicide attempt
The aim of this work is a comprehensive clinical and psychological assessment of mothers whose teenage daughters have attempted suicide. Materials and methods: 31 women whose teenage daughters had attempted suicide were examined. The following techniques having widespread results in practice we used as diagnostic tools: a questionnaire of suicidal risk questionnaire by Plutchik-Kellerman-Comte, a test of resilience - Hardiness Survey questionnaire for the diagnosis of the specific experiences of anger, State Anger Inventory, questionnaire time perspective Zimbardo-Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory, a questionnaire Analysis of family relations. The results showed that the experimental group of mothers is quite autoaggressive, so on a scale of Autoaggression (AX/IN) indicators in the group of mothers of experimental and control groups consisted of 16,032 and of 11.65, respectively. Participants of the experimental group are characterized with negative concepts of self, their general level of resilience is reduced (67,17 vs. 82,916). Most often they incline to use displacement and projection as defensive mechanisms. The general pattern of upbringing tends to be hypoprotective (3,870 vs. 2,016 units). Conclusions: the analysis of family relationships has shown that the parenting style of mothers is hypoprotective with elements of instability. In addition, overall the group could be described as dysfunctional in many significant parameters (reduced vitality, lack of hope for the future of personal insolvency).