Suicid adolescenata
Adolescent suicides
Author(s): Marija Lebedina-Manzoni, Toni MaglicaSubject(s): Education, Psychology
Published by: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet
Keywords: adolescent suicide; etiological factors; gender;
Summary/Abstract: The number of adolescent suicides rise up every year in whole world. In a lot of countries suicide is the third corse of death of young people. This paper thy to explain the differences of adolescent suicide if we compare them with the suicide of adult, talks about some risk factors and possibilities of prevention.The investigation is made on sample of 127 adolescents in Zagreb and Split. The aim was to examine which were the assessments of adolescents about etiological factors of suicide among young people of their age. The second aim was to compare assessments of male and female adolescents and find which are the differ- Psychical problems, depression, impossibility to find the exit for problem, life without sense and consuming drugs are assessed as dominant factors in aetiology of suicide. In 5 items the answers of female students have statistically bigger values if we compare them with answers of male students. There ate the items which speaks about bad relationships with parents, feeling of hopeless, depression, loneliness, unpossibility to find the exit in problems.
Journal: Hrvatska revija za rehabilitacijska istrazivanja
- Issue Year: 39/2004
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 139-148
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Croatian