Related Experiment Video
Updated: Oct 13, 2025

Assessing the Coherence of Parents' Short Narratives Regarding their Child Using the Five-Minute Speech Sample Procedure
Published on: September 19, 2019
Reasons assigned to suicide attempts: adolescents' perceptions
Émilen Vieira Simões1, Adriane Maria Netto de Oliveira1, Leandro Barbosa de Pinho2
1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande. Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Objective:
identify the reasons for attempting suicide from the perspective of adolescents.
Methods:
qualitative study conducted with ten adolescents who attempted suicide and were attending a Centro de Atenção Psicossocial Infanto-Juvenil located in a city in the south of Brazil. Semi-structured interviews were held in July 2020 using WhatsApp. Data were analyzed according to Minayo's Content Thematic Analysis.
Results:
the adolescents' reports listed the reasons that triggered suicide attempts, such as changes in the adolescents' life cycle and violence, which led them to attempt suicide to solve problems.
Final Considerations:
Data analysis revealed the reasons that triggered suicide attempts from the adolescents' perspective and difficulties to cope with problems, probably explained by their lack of experience in dealing with frustrations and disappointments.
Related Concept Videos
Self-Evaluation: Self-Enhancement and Self-Verification
Self-Presentation: Self-Monitoring and Self-Handicapping
Sources of Self-Esteem I: Family Experience
Bullying
Fundamental Attribution Error
Self-Discrepancy Theory

