Maladaptive Personality Traits and Suicidal Risk in Adolescents

Introduction: Adolescence is a developmental window with high affective vulnerability and intense reorganization of self-regulation mechanisms. Attachment theory (Bowlby; Ainsworth) postulates that early relational representa-tions shape the response to stress and self-image (1; 2), influencing the de-velopment of emotional intelligence (3; 4). In the analyzed thesis, attachment style was considered a central predictor of emotional maturity and affective regulation. In the contemporary literature on sui-cidal ideation and behavior, several explanatory models converge on two axes: emotional dysregula-tion/negative affect and relational disruption/ perceived burden + disconnection. Among these, we men-tion: Interpersonal Theory of Suicide (5), Three-Step Theory (3ST) (6), Integrated Motivation-al-Volitional (IMV) model (7), and neuro-psychosocial perspectives (8; 9; 10). These theoretical frameworks provide a solid context for integrating the attachment questionary (11), Friedmann scale, PID-5 (12), and Suicidality Index data from the present study