The impact of accentuations of character on suicidal behaviour personality.

Abstract

The author draw attention to the fact that society has increased «suicidal vulnerability» that make up the various characteristics of the personality and behavior of man and his environment, including certain Accentuate personality. Details the concept of «accent of the person», «personality accentuation», and «accentuation traits», is a comparative analysis of the classification accentuated personality (K. Leongard) and classification of accentuations of character (A. Licko). With this emphasis, that cannot be identified accentuation with psychopathology nature. On the contrary, the author, referring to researchers believe that accentuate individuals have the willingness to special development (social positive or social negative) and come to the conclusion that the accent is an extreme variant of the norm. The article from the point of view of the propensity to suicidal behavior provides a detailed description of the accentuations of character. Noting that suicidal tendencies cause serious injury friends of people who deny the value of human life and are specific psychogenic factor reducing the level of optimism and activity of the members of the society, the author suggest that prevention suicidality young people through the organization of psychological and psychological-pedagogical work with accentuate is a priority direction of activity of the specialists in the sphere of education. From this point of view the article gives a detailed description of psychological and psycho-pedagogical work with accentuate and General recommendations for the prevention of suicidal behavior among youth.