Formy samoświadomości u osób po próbach samobójczych

The Self-consciousness Scale by A. Fenigstein, M. F. Scheier and A. H. Buss was administered to 100 persons who attempted to commit suicide and to 100 controls. The results lead to following conclusions: 1. Those who tried to commit suicide at least once reveal significantly higher level of public self-consciousness and social anxiety than controls. These persons have also higher level of private self-consciousness. The later is not statistically significant, however. 2. Those after several suicidal attempts have higher level of social anxiety in comparison to persons with only one previous suicidal attempt. There are no differences between these two groups as far as private and public self-consciousness is concerned. 3. There are no differences between men and women who committed suicide in neither of three forms of self-consciousness.