Rasgos de la personalidad y su relación con la intencionalidad suicida en estudiantes de bachillerato

Abstract

Personality traits can be defined as a set of characteristics that allow the adoption of behaviors in different situations; on the other hand, suicidal intentionality can be described as the unintentional act inflicted with self-destructive intent. The objective of the research was to search for the relationship between different personality traits with suicidal intentionality in high school students, for which a transversal, non -experimental, quantitative approach was used. A sample of 152 students from a secondary school in the province of Tungurahua with 59.86% female and 40.13% male with an age range of minimum 14 years and maximum 17 years who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria to be participants. In order to obtain data, authorization was requested from the adolesce nts' representatives by signing the informed consent form. Subsequently, Google Forms digital forms were used, where validated tests were used, such as the International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE), which measures and evaluates different types and disorders of personality, and the suicide risk indicators questionnaire through the Beck-HF inventory, which measures suicidal potential. The main result was that the variables used in the selected population were not related, so the Spearman correlation test was used, however, the predominant personality traits were found to be schizotypal trait with 21.1% and borderline personality with 18.4%. In terms of suicidal intentionality, it was found that there is mostly a degree of mild suicidal intentionality with 46.1%.