Depression, jealousy, suicidal ideation and relationship with suicide risk, in the Spanish population

Abstract

Introduction: Jealousy, depression, suicide ideation, and suicide risk are associated with suicide. The attention of these factors concentrates on efforts to understand how to prevent suicides. General objective: Study the relationship of jealousy, depression, suicide ideation, and suicide risk in the population of Spain. Method: The sample is composed of 246 Spanish citizens. Instruments: The participants respond in July 2021 to a battery of tests: the Instrument for the Evaluation of Pathological Jealousy (CECLA), the Spanish version of the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), the Spanish version of the Positive and Negative Suicidal Ideation Inventory (PANSI), and the "Scale of Suicide Risk" (RS). The methodological strategy used was transversal predictive. Results: Statistically significant differences were found between the sociodemographic characteristics and the different variables in the study. Conclusions: with a model of logic binary regression, we found that the variables of age, sex, family income, suicide ideation, and depression predict between 46 and 76% of the variance of suicide risk.