Features of suicidal behavior of youth and resiliency of personality

The article deals with the problem of suicide phenomenon. The immediacy of the problem is determined by the increasing number of committed suicides from the perspective of integrative, epistemological and axiological approaches. The authors consider suicide as a deep act that helps a person comprehend the basic philosophical attitudes of existence that leads to the necessity of risk factors and factors of suicide prevention. The paper deals with the resiliency of the personality as a factor that prevents the risk of suicide. The authors consider the resiliency as a strong personal resource that helps to overcome the negative impact of stressful situations, and, thus, to prevent the risk of suicidal behavior. In article analyzes the features of the relationships between the resiliency of the personality of youth and the level of propensity to suicidal behavior. The leading method of the research was the psychological testing of samples of the youth disposed to suicidal behavior and the youth undisposed to suicidal behavior, and further the comparative analysis of the results of the empirical study and the identification of features peculiar to different samples. Eighty students took part in the empirical study, among them forty boys and forty girls. The authors used the following methods: Resistance test by D. A. Leontief and E. I. Rasskazova, and the Method for Determining the Propensity to Deviant Behavior by A. N. Orel. The interpretation of the results of this study made it possible to draw the main conclusions concerning the characteristics of the resiliency of the personality of young people prone to suicidal behavior. Underestimated level of resiliency leads to the increase of internal stress in stressful situations, which increases the level of propensity to suicidal behavior. The identified features of the resiliency of young people disposed to suicidal behavior, and young people undisposed to suicidal behavior, allow them to be used in developing programs for sociopsychological prevention of suicidal behavior, and may be applied by specialists in the field of suicide prevention.