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Objective: This study is an investigation of parasuicidal presentations in young people in Bosnia during the period from 1992 to 2004. The other aims were: an analysis of the stress as well as the personal and emotional traits of suicidal subjects., Methods: Two groups of young people were investigated: 90 with parasuicidal caracteristics and 90 controls who had experienced emotional and behavioral crises during adolescence. The study is longitudinal and stratified according to the qualities of the parasuicidal behaviour. The tests used in this study (LOP, Ci, CMI, EPQ-98 and P.I.E.) are statistically elaborated by standard descriptive and analytical methods., Results: The results show the following factors to be highly significant: destruction and violence inside the families (p < 0.001) as well as migration and heredity (p < 0.05). Discriminative analysis (rc) confirmed group difference in neuroticism = 0.95541, F=38.321 with significance factor of p < 0.001. EPQ test in parasuicidal subjects shows high level of neuroticism and psychoticism while controls show extroversion and conformism. Canonical Fcn = 0.6634, rc = 0.771, df = 4 chi(2) = 85.73, p < 0.001. P.I.E. clearly differentiated parasuicidal group from adolescent, control group: Hi quadrant test chi(2) = 101.361 and statistical significance p < 0.001. Results show: 1. suicide: n = 7 (7.7%), parasuicide: n = 84 (43.6%) and maturation: n = 89 (48.9%)., Conclusion: Representation of parasuicidal behaviour was found in both groups of examinees, but the forms are more represented in parasuicide. Sociodemographic difference between the examined groups was proved, and stress, personal and emotional structures of parasuicide were confirmed by discrimination analysis. Auto-destructivity shows even quicker forms of destruction and longer forms of self-destruction.

Unlabelled: Subject of the study is suicidal and parasuicidal behaviour in B&H in the period 1992-2004 in relation to transition, anomie and structures of suicidal personalities., Method: Two self-destructive groups (in 2001 and in 2005) were tested in B&H. The test group consists of n = 125 subjects who had suicide, and control group consists of n = 125 persons with parasuicidal behaviour. WE USED: GDL, EPQ, HAMD and Pluchic's test in a longitudinal study stratified by the seriousness of suicide and quality of parasuicide., Results: Self-destructivity has been increasing in B&H. Socio-demographic data of the suicide are: gender = 73.3 +/- 2.5 (m) 26.7 +/- 2.7 (f), broken family = 34.4 +/- 4.8, migration = 52.2 +/- 3.2, heredity = 46.7 +/- 2.0 and parasuicide: gender = 47.8% +/- 5.2(m), 26.7 +/- 2.7(f), broken family = 41.1% +/- 5.2, migration = 54.4% +/- 4.6, heredity = 41.3 +/- 2.8. EPQ in suicide is: M +/- SD--neuroticism = 16,73 +/- 7.03, psychosis = 18,21 +/- 6.64, and in parasuicide extroversion = 15,37 +/- 4.21 and Lay-scale = 13,95 +/- 3.37, and significance p<0.01. HAMD is increased in suicide: H +/- SD: depression: 2.99 +/- 1.21, emotion of guilt = 2.19 +/- 1.14, suicide = 3.91 +/- 1.19, early insomnia = 2.11 +/- 1.21, anxiety = 1.93 +/- 1.21 with p<0.01, and in parasuicide: hypochondria = 1.77 +/- 0.95, depersonalization = 1.71 +/- 0.65, and O-K-signs = 1.59 +/- 0.79 with p<0.01. Pluchic's test separates basic emotions, and all is gathered by matrix of discriminative function., Conclusion: High level of self-destruction in suicidal and parasuicidal behaviour is proven in the study. Suicide shows faster self-destruction and a way of suicidal end, and parasuicide slower destruction with postponing the suicidal crash. Sign of suicide and parasuicide can be found in both groups of respondents and the ways of expression are different, but definite in suicide.