TY - JOUR T1 - COMPARISON OF PERSONALITY TRAITS, SOCIAL SUPPORT, AND RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION IN SUICIDE ATTEMPTER AND CONTROL GROUP TT - مقایسه ویژگی‌های شخصیتی، حمایت اجتماعی و جهت‌گیری مذهبی در افراد اقدام کننده به خودکشی و گروه گواه JF - URMIAMJ JO - URMIAMJ VL - 24 IS - 12 UR - http://umj.umsu.ac.ir/article-1-2065-en.html Y1 - 2014 SP - 1016 EP - 1026 KW - Personality traits KW - Social support KW - Religious orientation KW - Suicide attempt N2 -     Background & Aims: Understanding risk factors for suicide attempts is important in preventing suicidal behavior. This study aimed to compare personality traits, social support, and religious orientation in suicide attempters and control group.   Materials & Methods: In a case-control study, 120 suiside attempeters who referred to Shahid Madani hospital of Azarshahr town were compared with 140 control. They were selected using conveniennce sampling, and were matched by a number of demographic factors. Data were gathered using NEO Personality Inventory Revised (NEO-PI-R) , sucial support scale and religious orientation , and were analyzed via logistic regression and T-test.   Results : Finding showed that suicide attempters revealed higher scores onneuroticism and lower scores on extraversion and conscientiousness compared with non-attempers. On the other hand, the experinced weak social support had external religious orientation. Also, logistic regression analyses demonstrated that suicide attempt was positively predicted by neuroticism, and negatively predicted by agreeableness, openness, family support, and friends’ support, and 27% of the variance related to suicide attempt is predicted by these variables.   Conclusion : P ersonality traits, social support and religious orientation are considered as important risk factors for suicide attempt.     SOURCE: URMIA MED J 2014: 24(12): 1026 ISSN: 1027-3727 M3 ER -