Attitudes toward Suicide

The Effect of Suicide Death in the Family

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13628110
AutoresJie Zhang (0000-0002-6538-2770, Central University of Finance and Economics), Cun-Xian Jia (0000-0002-2651-147X, Shandong University School of Public Health and the Postdoc Program of the School of Economics, China, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen60
Número4
Páginas365-382
Fecha de publicación2010-03-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/om.60.4.d
PMID20397616
OpenAlexW2085807694
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas47

There have been few reports on the effect of suicide death on family members' attitudes toward suicide. In order to estimate the extent to which suicide death affects attitudes toward suicide among family members of suicides, data of 264 informants from a case-control psychological autopsy study were analyzed. The results showed that there were no significant differences in attitudes toward suicide, measured by the General Social Survey's (GSS) four questions, between informants of suicides and informants of living controls, between family members of suicides and family members of living controls, or between family members of suicides and non-family members of suicides. Our findings did not support the hypothesis that suicide death affects the attitudes toward suicide in suicides' family members. However, some factors were found to be related to the pro-suicide attitudes measured by the four questions included in the GSS

Family medicine · Family member · Injury prevention · Medical emergency · Poison control · Psychiatry · Suicide prevention · Clinical Psychology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies