Relationship between personality profile and suicidal attempt among psychiatric disorder with and without epilepsy: A Retrospective study

Rupali Chandola

Volume : V, Issue : XII, December - 2016

Relationship between personality profile and suicidal attempt among psychiatric disorder with and without epilepsy: A Retrospective study

Rupali Chandola

Abstract :

Inflexible personality traits play an important role in the development of maladaptive behaviors among patients who attempt suicide. ?is study aimed to investigate the relationship between personality profile and suicidal attempt among psychiatric disorder with and without epilepsy. Study conducted on (n=80) participants of either sex (Group I, n=40) with epilepsy (Group II, n=40) without epilepsy age ranging between (20–45) years. Dimension Personality Inventory (DPI) administered on all the participants included in the study. Analysis of the data indicated female with epilepsy commit suicide in comparison to male. ?e difference was statistically significant at (p<.05) level. With epilepsy tend to be more assertive, independent in nature, dominant, suspicious, apprehensive, blaming others for his/her all failures, depressive, feeling of hopelessness, unloved, suicidal ideas, highly frustrated ,delusion of references were more prominent then those of without epilepsy