Attitudes Toward Suicide in the Adolescent Population

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Arnautovska, Urska
T. Grad, Onja
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2010
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Background: Only few studies have so far confirmed the clear connection of attitudes toward suicide with prevalence of suicidal behavior, and there are several contradictory findings on the balance of this relationship. Slovenia has long had a very high suicide rate, including in the population of adolescents. Aims: To examine attitudes of Slovene adolescents toward suicide and their connection to different suicide risk factors. Methods: A questionnaire on attitudes toward suicide was given to 423 high school students from three regions based on the different regional suicide rates. Results: The results proved our expectation of girls having more permissive attitudes toward suicide than boys. Also, a permissive attitude was positively associated with the majority of suicide risk factors. Conclusions: In the light of certain limitations of the study we discuss the implications of the main finding, namely, that permissive attitudes toward suicide are more likely a risk than a safety factor for suicidal behavior.

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Crisis : the journal of crisis intervention and suicide prevention

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31

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1

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© 2010 Hogrefe & Huber Publishers. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in CRISIS. It is not the version of record and is therefore not suitable for citation.

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Psychology not elsewhere classified

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Communication and Media Studies

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