TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - A Comparative Study of Permissive Attitudes Toward Suicide : An Analysis of Cross-National Survey in South Korea, Japan, and the United States
JO  - Korean journal of biological psychiatry
A1  - C-Hyung-Keun PARK, 
A1  - Kim, Bora
A1  - Lee, Sang-Sin
A1  - Ha, Kyooseob
A1  - Baek, Chang-Jae
A1  - Shin, Min-Sup
A1  - Ahn, Yong-Min
A1  - C-Hyung-Keun PARK, 
A1  - Kim, Bora
A1  - Lee, Sang-Sin
A1  - Ha, Kyooseob
A1  - Baek, Chang-Jae
A1  - Shin, Min-Sup
A1  - Ahn, Yong-Min
SP  - 157
EP  - 165
VL  - 
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N2  - OBJECTIVES: There were previous studies which indicated that attitude toward suicide is able to influence the suicide outcome in both individual and group levels. In regard to the highest suicide rate in Korea, our study aims to explore the influence that attitude toward suicide has on suicide by comparing the national attitude towards suicide with a representative sample of the general population. <br><br>METHODS: The target population was 20- to 59-year-old adults from South Korea, Japan, and the United States. The panel data were divided according to gender, age, and residential area of individuals, and an email with a hyperlink to our web survey was sent to the randomly selected participants in each stratum. To measure the perceptual differences about suicide in different cultures, this study adopted the Attitudes Toward Suicide questionnaire. <br><br>RESULTS: A total of 2247 subjects in three countries participated in this study. According to results from factor analysis, there were different structure of factors and included items within factors in the three countries : five factors with nineteen items in South Korea, five factors with nineteen items in the United States, and five factors with twenty-five items in Japan. With regard to permissive attitude toward suicide, the mean value of permissiveness was not significantly different among countries, but permissiveness according to education level, gender, and marital status was different in each country. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: This study is the first nationwide comparative study about attitude toward suicide with a representative sample. Our findings suggest that permissive attitude toward suicide influence the suicide phenomenon in each country ; however, its impact is not a mean score of permissiveness, but the detailed difference by various demographics.<p /> <p>Language: ko</p>
LA  - ko
SN  - 1225-8709
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -