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KMID : 1151020210490030084
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Mental Health & Social Work
2021 Volume.49 No. 3 p.84 ~ p.110
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Multi-level factors assoiciated with cause of suicide in South Korea
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Lee Soon-Ju
Kang Sang-Kyoung
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Abstract
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This study aims to examine whether individual-level factors (i.e., gender, age, employment, marital status) and regional-level factors (i.e., economic, demographic, and social dissolution factors) are related to suicide. The subjects of the study were 54,543 cases included in the first public data of the total survey of suicide deaths in Korea from 2013 to 2017. For multi-level analysis, 54,543 individual data were connected with the data of 228 local governments. To address research questions, a multi-nominal logistic hierarchical regression analyses were done using the R package. Key findings are as follows. (1) When suicide deaths were employed, the higher the GRDP and urbanization rate of the local government, the higher the odds ratio of suicide due to economic problems than the one due to mental health problems. (2) When suicide deaths were unemployed, the higher the poverty rate and population density of the local government, the higher the odds ratio of suicide due to mental health problems compared to economic problems. (3) When suicide deaths experienced family dissolution, and when the joint divorce rate of the local government was higher, the odds ratio of suicide due to economic problems was higher than that of mental health problems. Based on the results, Implications for policy to reduce both individual and regional level risk factors associated with suicide deaths were discussed.
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KEYWORD
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Suicide in Korea, Cause of suicide death, Poverty and suicide, Working poor, Family dissolution, Suicide bereaved family
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