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Body Awareness as a Protective Factor against Suicidal Orientations in College Students

Olga Lucía Montoya-Hurtado
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Renato Sobral Monteiro-Junior
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Cyndi Yacira Meneses-Castaño
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Consuelo Sancho Sanchez
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Antonio Martínez-Sabater
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Maria Pilar Andrés-Olivera
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Pilar Sánchez-Conde
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Jesús Pérez
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José Maria Criado-Gutierrez
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Laura Criado-Pérez
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Juan Luis Sanchez-González
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Raúl Juárez-Vela
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Version 1 : Received: 6 March 2024 / Approved: 7 March 2024 / Online: 8 March 2024 (11:18:48 CET)

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Montoya-Hurtado, O.L.; Sobral-Monteiro-Junior, R.; Meneses-Castaño, C.Y.; Sancho-Sánchez, C.; Martínez-Sabater, A.; Andrés-Olivera, P.; Sanchez-Conde, P.; Sánchez-Toledo, J.P.; Criado-Gutiérrez, J.M.; Criado-Pérez, L.; Sánchez-González, J.L.; Juárez-Vela, R. Body Awareness as a Protective Factor against Suicidal Orientations in College Students. Behav. Sci. 2024, 14, 358. Montoya-Hurtado, O.L.; Sobral-Monteiro-Junior, R.; Meneses-Castaño, C.Y.; Sancho-Sánchez, C.; Martínez-Sabater, A.; Andrés-Olivera, P.; Sanchez-Conde, P.; Sánchez-Toledo, J.P.; Criado-Gutiérrez, J.M.; Criado-Pérez, L.; Sánchez-González, J.L.; Juárez-Vela, R. Body Awareness as a Protective Factor against Suicidal Orientations in College Students. Behav. Sci. 2024, 14, 358.

Abstract

Suicide is a public health problem influenced by a variety of biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors. Recognizing the warning signs at each stage is crucial for prevention and helping those at risk. In this context, body awareness, especially interoceptive body awareness, emerges as a potentially relevant and underexplored factor. In this study, binary logistic regression and linear regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between interoceptive body awareness and suicidal orientation in Colombian university students. In addition, the bootstrap technique was used to resample and estimate the distribution of the data. The results support the idea that greater interoceptive awareness may protect against suicidal orientation by improving emotional regulation. An inverse relationship was found between interoceptive awareness and suicidal ideation. These findings are consistent with previous literature on the importance of body awareness for emotional well-being. Further longitudinal research is needed to explore this relationship in depth.

Keywords

body awareness; interoception; suicide prevention; attempted suicide

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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