Associação entre apego e risco de suicídio em estudantes universitários

Abstract

Objective: Establish the association between attachment dimensions and suicidal risk in college students of Colombia. Method: A cross-sectional study was designed with college students from Santa Marta, Colombia, who completed the Armsden & Greenberg attachment inventory and the Plutchik suicide risk scale. Results: a total of 142 students between 16 and 20 years old participated in the research (M=17.7, SD=1.0), where 54.2% were women, 42.3% of students showed low confidence in the mother, 38% low communication with the mother, 30.3% high alienation with the mother, 41.5% low confidence in the father, 50.7% low communication with the father, 33.8% high alienation in the father and 14.8% high suicide risk. After adjusting for victimization, the variables poor communication with mother (OR=4.54, 95%CI 1.58-12.5), alienation with the mother (OR=3.28, 95%CI 1.22-8.83) and low confidence with the father (OR=4.54, 95%CI 1.55-12.6) were associated with high risk suicide. Conclusions: Low communication in the mother, high alienation with the mother and low confidence in the father are associated with high suicidal risk in Colombian college students. New studies are needed