Suicide, Satisfaction With Life, and Insight Capacity Among Adolescents With Mental Disorders.

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the role of insight and satisfaction with life in adolescent suicidal behavior. AIMS: The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between suicide risk, insight, and satisfaction with life among adolescents with mental disorders. METHOD: A total of 30 adolescents were evaluated using self-report measures of insight, satisfaction with life, and suicide risk. Regression analysis was used to assess the contribution of each factor to suicide risk. RESULTS: Positive correlations were found between suicide risk and insight dimensions. Satisfaction with life correlated negatively with suicide risk and insight dimensions. Insight explained 27.3% of suicide risk (p = .003). Both insight and satisfaction with life explained 39.0% of suicide risk (p = .031). CONCLUSION: Among adolescents with mental disorders, insight is a risk factor, whereas satisfaction with life is a protective factor for suicidality. Insight affects suicide risk of adolescents with mental disorders via reduction of satisfaction with life.

Parents of adolescents with psychiatric disorders: insight into the disorder, self-stigma and parental stress.

BACKGROUND: Parents of adolescents with mental disorders experience stress partially due to the way they perceive and experience their offspring's disorder. The current study assessed the mediator role of self-stigma in the relationship between insight into the disorder and parental stress of parents of adolescents with mental disorders. METHOD: A total of 37 parents of adolescents with psychiatric disorders were assessed for their level of insight, self-stigma and parental stress. RESULTS: The hypothesized mediation model was confirmed and is consistent with previous study on parents of adults with severe mental illness. DISCUSSION: The positive association between insight and parental stress is mediated by these parents' self-stigma, suggesting that insight increases the self-stigma, which in turn increases the parental stress. These results may have clinical implications with regard to the treatment of the family of adolescents with mental disorders.