Suicide ideation and self-concept in mexican high school students

Abstract

The present research had three main objectives, to study the relationship between self-concept and suicidal ideation in high school students, to compare both variables according to the sex of the students and to identify the strength of the dimensions of self-concept in the prediction of suicidal ideation. The sampling used was incidental non-probabilistic and was formed by a total of 567 students. A negative relationship was found between suicidal ideation and the academic-labor, social, family, and physical factors of self-concept. No differences were found between men and women in suicidal ideation, but they were found in the emotional and physical factors of self-concept. With respect to the regression analysis, the factors "Family self-concept" and "Academic-labor self-concept" formed the model, which explain between 12.1% and 16.2% of the variance. Finally, the study recommends encouraging activities that increase the self-concept of people and thus prevent problems of suicidal ideation.