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Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana
Print version ISSN 1794-4724On-line version ISSN 2145-4515
Abstract
LANDA-BLANCO, Miguel; URTECHO-OSORTO, Oscar Rolando and AGUILAR-CHAVEZ, Miguel Mercado Ángel. Factors Related to Suicide Risk in University Students from Honduras. Av. Psicol. Latinoam. [online]. 2022, vol.40, n.1, 7. Epub Aug 22, 2022. ISSN 1794-4724. https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/apl/a.8537.
Suicide risk is defined as the possibility of a person deliberately taking his/her own life; this is considered a self-destructive behavior with multifactorial causes. This research aimed to determine the psychological factors associated with suicide risk in university students. This was done through a quantitative, non-experimental approach. The sample consisted of 1.696 undergraduate students, 54.7 % female and 43.6 % male students. Questionnaires were applied to evaluate meaning in life, depression, hope, loneliness, interpersonal support, and suicide risk. The results indicated that 50 % of the participants reported never having suicidal thoughts. However, 26.8 % had had a passing thought about committing suicide, 9.9 % had thought of a specific (but unexecuted) plan to commit suicide, 5.8 % reported a previous suicide attempt without the intention of actually committing suicide, 5 % had made plans to take their own life with a real intention to commit the act, and 2.4 % had made at least one suicide attempt with a desire to die. Results indicate that there is a significant inverse relation between suicide risk and hope, the presence and search for a meaning in life, and interpersonal support. However, a higher suicide risk is positively correlated with loneliness and depression. These results are discussed according to their implications in clinical practice.
Keywords : Suicide; depression; hope; meaning in life; interpersonal support; mental health.