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ABSTRACT:This study investigates suicide from the vantage point of the suicidal person by analyzing the personal meaning(s) of the act for the individual. Twenty‐seven suicidal persons and survivors contributed to the research. Their individual recollections are studied and ordered within the framework of Jean Baechler's approach (as presented in his bookSuicides). The study indicates that there is, in each case, an identifiable purpose or a pattern of purposes that can be categorized within a restricted and meaningful system, which may help the observer understand what human beings are doing when they want to end their live

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1985.tb00784.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:Little is known about deaths resulting from self‐inflicted violent behavior for Hispanic Americans. To learn more about suicide for Hispanics of Mexican origin (Mexican Americans) we focused on the five southwestern states (Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas) in which more than 60% of all Hispanics in the United States reside (86% of whom are Mexican American). We obtained data on the number of suicide deaths in the white population, with Hispanics and Anglos (white, non‐Hispanic) identified separately. Suicides of Anglos were used as a comparison group. Results show that the suicide rate for whites in the five southwestern states (15.6) was almost one‐fourth higher than the rate for whites nationally (12.7). Suicide rates for the two ethnic groups, however, showed the rate for Hispanics (9.0) to be less than the national rates for whites (12.7) and one‐half that of Anglos residing in the same area (17.3). The lower suicide rate for Hispanics relative to Anglos is seen for both males and females. The ratio of male and female suicides for Hispanics was almost twice that for Anglos (4.0 to 1 for Hispanics and 2.3 to 1 for Anglos). More than 1 in 3 Hispanic men who committed suicide and more than 1 in 4 Hispanic women who committed suicide are under the ag

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1985.tb00785.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:An attempt is made to explain the increase in adolescent suicidal behavior reported for most countries in the European Economic Community over the last two decades, within the framework of a social learning theory. A typology of suicidal acts based on an outcome‐expectancy model is proposed that would make intelligible the observed positive correlation between the incidence of lethal and nonlethal suicidal acts, the latter having grown to epidemic proportions among the young.This epidemic can be attributed to the interplay of three groups of factors, namely, the socialization of a specific problem‐solving behavior repertoire, socioeconomic conditions, and attitudes toward suicide. The implications for suicide prevention are briefly discus

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1985.tb00786.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:This paper looks at the relationship between suicide‐related newspaper reports and a subway‐suicide epidemic. More reports were published during the epidemic, without statistically significant differences between epidemic and nonepidemic years. There did not appear to be an excess of reports antecedent to the suicide. The role of newspapers is discussed with particular reference to suicide epidemics. The need for studies of content of newspaper items related to self‐harm is empha

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1985.tb00787.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1985.tb00788.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACT:Cases from the past 25 years of 143 students who committed suicide at Kyoto University, a “name university” in Japan since 1956, were investigated retrospectively. Then the total trends of the suicide rate were reexamined in comparison with a control group, and the recent trends after the student strife (1970) were confirmed in comparison with the 15‐year period before the strife. Thus, using a longer time span, the total pattern of suicide could be reidentified as the “performance type” within an “achievement‐oriented culture.” Seemingly healthy students from normal homes have suddenly committed suicide in this recent “pupa within a cocoon” syndrome, resulting from “unbalanced personality development” in the context of moder

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1985.tb00789.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0363-0234    

DOI:10.1111/j.1943-278X.1985.tb00790.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY