Desesperanza y autoestima en adolescentes con y sin riesgo suicida Hopelessness and Self-esteem in teenagers with and without suicidal risk.

Suicide is considered a public health problem that has increased exponentially, so identify a population on suicide risk as well as associated factors, is essential for prevention in the adolescent population. This study analyzed the influence of self-esteem, hopelessness and sociodemographic factors affect the presence of suicidal risk in adolescents; for this, was worked with a total of 74 participants, men and women with an age range of 15 to 18 years, from a nonclinical population classified into two groups: with and without suicide risk, in equal number and characteristics of age and sex. The Scale of Suicidal Risk of Plutchik (1989; 1998), the scale of Self-Esteem of González-Arratia (2011) and the scale of Desesperanza de Córdoba, Rosales and Eguiluz (2005) were applied. It was found that exist a significant positive relationship between suicidal risk and hopelessness and inverse with self-esteem. Regarding the type of family, singleparent family participants scored higher in suicidal risk and in hopelessness. From the binary logistic regression model, it was obtained that the variable that predicts suicide risk is hopelessness, followed by self-esteem. No differences are reported between men and women in any of the evaluated variables. Therefore, it's concluded that hopelessness increases the probability of suicidal risk, that's why it's essential to include it in future empirical studies, as well as models of prevention and intervention in adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]