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KMID : 0377619910560080601
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1991 Volume.56 No. 8 p.601 ~ p.609
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Attitude toward Sucide(Ⅰ)
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Abstract
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In an attempt to darify some basic factors directly or indirectly related to the problem, this study is primarily designed to investigate general attitude toward various forms of suicide as well as to investigate general opinions regarding the causal factors for the problem of suicide among students, salarymen and housewives group in Seoul and Suwon.
The term "Attitude" applied in this study merely means that whether they, as an individual, conditionary approve of the suicidal act or disaprove. The response for the attitude is expected to choose one out of the following for categories; 1) suicide is an absolutely disapprovable act for me, 2) it is dependent on the circumstance they are faced on, (conditional approval), 3) undecided and 4; others.
In regard to the opinions concerning causal factors for suicide, Author formulated three basic categories such as 1) factors related to the family situation 2) factors related to the economical matters and 3) factors related to individual problems and each item contained 4-14 subcategories and each on is asked to choose one out of three categories as well as one out of those subcategories in order to see detailed view of their opinions.
The subject of this study were 625 persons including undergraduate, salarymen and hous-wives.
The collected data were analyzed by frequency, Mean, and Pearson correlation coefficient using SPSS.
The results of this study were as follows;
1. In single sucide, men response more "an absoloutely disaprovable act", while women response more "conditional approval act " (P < 0.05).
2. Religious background of entire groups reveal that those non-believers and Buddhists seem rather liberal toward the problems related to sucide where as those Catholics and Protestants are very definitely influenced by the religious doctrines and most of them firmly disapprove of any forms of suicide (P < 0.01).
3. As to the opinions in regard to the causal factors for single sucide and double sucide, it is noted that there some differences in opinions between sex, the women response more "attitude toward individual life", while the men response more "social factor" (P < 0.01) .
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