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Externalising Behaviours, Impulsivity, Alexithymia, and Emotional Dysregulation in Adolescents’ Suicidality

OBJECTIVE: suicide represents the second leading cause of death among adolescents (WHO, 2021). A deeper understanding of the characteristics that lead to it is crucial to increase the ability of clinicians in evaluating, treating, and preventing it. The objective of this study is to analyze the diff...

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Autores principales: Gatta, Michela, Raffagnato, Alessia, Angelico, Caterina, Benini, Elena, Medda, Erica, Fasolato, Rachele, Miscioscia, Marina
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10016105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36936619
http://dx.doi.org/10.36131/cnfioritieditore20230103
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author Gatta, Michela
Raffagnato, Alessia
Angelico, Caterina
Benini, Elena
Medda, Erica
Fasolato, Rachele
Miscioscia, Marina
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Raffagnato, Alessia
Angelico, Caterina
Benini, Elena
Medda, Erica
Fasolato, Rachele
Miscioscia, Marina
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description OBJECTIVE: suicide represents the second leading cause of death among adolescents (WHO, 2021). A deeper understanding of the characteristics that lead to it is crucial to increase the ability of clinicians in evaluating, treating, and preventing it. The objective of this study is to analyze the differences in impulsivity, externalizing behaviors, emotion dysregulation, and alexithymia between two groups of adolescents, the first presenting suicidal ideation (SI), the second presenting at least one suicide attempt (SA), in an ideation-to-action framework. METHOD: we conducted a retrospective study with 190 adolescents (M= 14.5, SD (age) = 1.63; SI: n = 97, SA: n = 93). All were hospitalized in the Complex Operative Child Neuropsychiatry Hospital Unit (UOC-NPI) of the Hospital-University of Padua. Data were collected using the Youth Self-Report (YSR 11-18), Barratt’s Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) questionnaires. RESULTS: the SA group obtained higher clinical scores in the YSR “rule-breaking behavior” and “conduct problems” scales, and in total TAS-20. CONCLUSIONS: the role of externalizing problems and alexithymia could open new frontiers in the understanding of suicide. These new data could be useful for the implementation of early screening protocols and for directing clinical interventions, promoting greater emotion regulation and anger management skills among patients
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spelling pubmed-100161052023-03-16 Externalising Behaviours, Impulsivity, Alexithymia, and Emotional Dysregulation in Adolescents’ Suicidality Gatta, Michela Raffagnato, Alessia Angelico, Caterina Benini, Elena Medda, Erica Fasolato, Rachele Miscioscia, Marina Clin Neuropsychiatry Research Paper OBJECTIVE: suicide represents the second leading cause of death among adolescents (WHO, 2021). A deeper understanding of the characteristics that lead to it is crucial to increase the ability of clinicians in evaluating, treating, and preventing it. The objective of this study is to analyze the differences in impulsivity, externalizing behaviors, emotion dysregulation, and alexithymia between two groups of adolescents, the first presenting suicidal ideation (SI), the second presenting at least one suicide attempt (SA), in an ideation-to-action framework. METHOD: we conducted a retrospective study with 190 adolescents (M= 14.5, SD (age) = 1.63; SI: n = 97, SA: n = 93). All were hospitalized in the Complex Operative Child Neuropsychiatry Hospital Unit (UOC-NPI) of the Hospital-University of Padua. Data were collected using the Youth Self-Report (YSR 11-18), Barratt’s Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) questionnaires. RESULTS: the SA group obtained higher clinical scores in the YSR “rule-breaking behavior” and “conduct problems” scales, and in total TAS-20. CONCLUSIONS: the role of externalizing problems and alexithymia could open new frontiers in the understanding of suicide. These new data could be useful for the implementation of early screening protocols and for directing clinical interventions, promoting greater emotion regulation and anger management skills among patients Giovanni Fioriti Editore srl 2023-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10016105/ /pubmed/36936619 http://dx.doi.org/10.36131/cnfioritieditore20230103 Text en © 2023 Giovanni Fioriti Editore s.r.l. This is an open access article. Distribution and reproduction are permitted in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Gatta, Michela
Raffagnato, Alessia
Angelico, Caterina
Benini, Elena
Medda, Erica
Fasolato, Rachele
Miscioscia, Marina
Externalising Behaviours, Impulsivity, Alexithymia, and Emotional Dysregulation in Adolescents’ Suicidality
title Externalising Behaviours, Impulsivity, Alexithymia, and Emotional Dysregulation in Adolescents’ Suicidality
title_full Externalising Behaviours, Impulsivity, Alexithymia, and Emotional Dysregulation in Adolescents’ Suicidality
title_fullStr Externalising Behaviours, Impulsivity, Alexithymia, and Emotional Dysregulation in Adolescents’ Suicidality
title_full_unstemmed Externalising Behaviours, Impulsivity, Alexithymia, and Emotional Dysregulation in Adolescents’ Suicidality
title_short Externalising Behaviours, Impulsivity, Alexithymia, and Emotional Dysregulation in Adolescents’ Suicidality
title_sort externalising behaviours, impulsivity, alexithymia, and emotional dysregulation in adolescents’ suicidality
topic Research Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10016105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36936619
http://dx.doi.org/10.36131/cnfioritieditore20230103
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