Suicide in adolescence: the role of perceived depression, attraction to life and repulsion to life

<p>This database includes the raw data linked with the paper "Suicide in adolescence: the role of perceived depression, attraction to life and repulsion to life" published on "JOURNAL NAME".&nbsp;</p><p>In this paper, we reported the results of two self-report questionnaires (BDI-SF, MAST) filled in by adolescent patients with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. We aimed to assess if self-report questionnaires can predict the possibility that a teenager may commit suicide.</p><p>Methods</p><p>We included 92 adolescent patients and divided them into two groups according to the interview C-SSRS: patients who present suicidal ideation only and the second consisting of patients presenting suicidal attempts (i.e. who presented concrete and/or interrupted attempts). They filled in the BDI-SF and the MAST.</p><p>Results (in brief):</p><p>Significant differences were found between the two groups regarding all the scales of the MAST except for the scale "repulsion to death"; the suicidal ideation group showed a greater attraction to life and less attraction to death, as well as less repulsion to life. Furthermore, as attraction to life increases, both repulsion by life and attraction to death decrease, while as the attraction to death increases, so does the repulsion by life. As the suicidal behavior group reported significantly higher levels of depression than the suicidal ideation group, the BDI-SF assumes a predictive function. Finally, the comparison of the two questionnaires highlighted that higher levels of attraction to life correspond to lower levels of depression, as well as higher levels of attraction to death correspond to higher levels of depression.</p>