TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1985//
TI  - Backgrounds of higher suicide rates among "name university" students: a retrospective study of the past 25 years
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Ishii, Kazuko
SP  - 56
EP  - 68
VL  - 15
IS  - 1
N2  - 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 modern mass higher education.
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SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -