Citation

Sueki H. Psychol. Health Med. 2016; 22(9): 1072-1081.

Affiliation

a Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Psychology and Education , Wako University , Tokyo , Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13548506.2016.1274409

PMID

28013548

Abstract

There are gaps in our knowledge of the role attitudes toward suicide play in determining people's willingness to participate (WTP) for suicide prevention. We conducted a large nationwide cross-sectional study with the aim of clarifying the relationship between WTP for reducing suicide risk and attitudes toward suicide. Ordinal logistic regression analyses (n = 1771) showed that there were significant associations of WTP for suicide prevention with 'Suicide as a right' (β = -.15, 95% CI: -.25 to -.04, p = .006), 'Preventability/readiness to help' (β = .81, 95% CI:.69-.94, p < .001) and 'Common occurrence' (β = .32, 95% CI:.19-.46, p < .001). 'Incomprehensibility/unpredictability' did not show an association with WTP. Taxpayer acceptance for suicide prevention is more likely to be achieved through provision of information that increases endorsement of 'preventability/readiness to help' and 'common occurrence' factors, and decreases 'suicide as a right' scores.

Language: en