Publicación:

Relación entre autoestima, ideación suicida y depresión en adolescentes de la ciudad de Santa Marta

Resumen

The health problem related to suicide is one of the ten leading causes of death for all ages worldwide, its prevalence has increased in recent years related to depression. On the other hand, self-esteem is a psychological aspect that consists of an emotional component and a value concept of our being, which is forged over time. This is connected with those thoughts, feelings, sensations and experiences that we ourselves have been acquiring, assimilating and internalizing during our life. In the same way, having a lower self-esteem for the stressors of the current social environment can become a risk factor for the appearance of suicidal thoughts or behaviors. Regarding the methodology of the present study, it was quantitative, since it is a study in which data collection was carried out by means of a virtual instrument to test hypotheses based on numerical measurement and statistical analysis, therefore which had a descriptive methodology that allowed crossing variables such as self-esteem, suicidal ideation and depression for the concepts or variables based in the same way on the cognitive-behavioral approach in the adolescent population of the city of Santa Marta. Regarding the correlation of variables between self-esteem and depression, it was identified that 17-year-old adolescents have a higher incidence of ups and downs that are considered normal with low self-esteem. On the other hand, atypical results were found in relation to extreme depression and high self-esteem, represented in adolescents of the age of 19, in the same way in relation to the crossing of levels of extreme depression with a mean self-esteem represented in adolescents of 19 years.