Features of the motivational sphere and coping strategies of mature suicides in the context of their existential crisis

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10.2991/mplg-ia-19.2019.75How to use a DOI?

Keywords

coping strategies, existential crisis, existential fulfillment, mature age, meaningfulness of life, suicides, suicidal motivation

Abstract

The purpose of the study is a comparative analysis of the characteristics of the motivational, semantic areas of personality and coping strategies of persons of mature age with suicidal behavior and their peers with normative behavior, as well as the study of the mutual influence of these features within both samples. Mature age suicides have a high level of suicidal motivation, a combination of adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies and an existential crisis. Risk factors for the development of suicidal motivation that determines suicidal behavior include loss of life meaning, coping strategies of distancing and self-control. Distancing also contributes to the development of an existential crisis in people with suicidal behavior. The protective factors of suicide and the development of an existential crisis in maturity include the meaningfulness of life, existential fulfillment, coping strategies for a positive reassessment of the situation, planning for solving a problem, and seeking social support.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Lyudmila Senkevich
AU  - Alena Oreshkina
AU  - Elena Orlova
PY  - 2019/12
DA  - 2019/12
TI  - Features of the motivational sphere and coping strategies of mature suicides in the context of their existential crisis
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Man-Power-Law-Governance: Interdisciplinary Approaches (MPLG-IA 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 409
EP  - 414
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/mplg-ia-19.2019.75
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