RT Journal Article
T1 Suicide attempts and stressful life events among homeless people in Madrid (Spain)
A1 Panadero Herrero, Sonia
A1 Martín Galván, Rosa
A1 Vázquez Cabrera, José Juan
AB The article describes a study carried out with a representative sample of homeless people in Madrid (Spain; N = 188). This study aims to corroborate the relationship identified in the literature between stressful life events and suicidal behaviour in a group in a situation of social exclusion, to assess the differences in the number and characteristics of stressful life events experienced by homeless people who are attempters and non‐attempters, and to identify which combination of stressful life events enables discrimination for suicide attempts among homeless people. The results show that 30% of homeless people in Madrid had attempted suicide, and 57.9% of them had done so for the first time when they were homeless. The interviewees are shown to have experienced a large amount of stressful life events, with substantially more stressors experienced by the homeless people who tried to commit suicide, during both their childhood and adolescence and throughout their life. Finally, we found that the combination of 7 stressful life events provided the best possible discrimination between homeless attempters and non‐attempters.
PB Wiley
SN 1052-9284; 1099-1298
YR 2018
FD 2018-05-31
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12723
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12723
LA eng
NO Referencia bibliográfica: Panadero, S., Martín, R., & Vázquez, J. J. (2018). Suicide attempts and stressfullife events among homeless people in Madrid (Spain). Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 28(4), 200-212. DOI: doi.org/10.1002/casp.2351
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 9 abr 2025