Resource Tag: SOCIAL STRUCTURE

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This article examines discourse about Internet addictions & video game-related suicide in China. Through an analysis of media reports, interview transcripts, & chat rooms, a preliminary account of the origins of contemporary Chinese concerns with Internet addiction is provided. The study approach draws on anthropological & sociological models of the cultural constructions of social problems […]

Young men are grossly over represented in Irish suicide statistics, yet this group is the least likely to use mental health services. This paper outlines why young men are reluctant to access mental health services, framing the problem in the context of risk factors for suicide such as binge drinking & social change. The paper […]

The purpose of this report is to provide a quantitative analysis of the prevalence of Vancouver Police Departments calls for service that involve persons with mental health issues. It is estimated the direct annual cost associated with the police resources necessary to handle these calls would be approximately $9 million. The case history of a […]

This article uses a utility based theory of suicide to conclude that a fall in the well-being of the female population in a country relative to the male population should imply a rise in the ratio of female suicide rate to male suicide rate. An application of this inference is attemtped for Indian states & […]

This edited book has the following chapters: the suicidal process & related concepts; the epidemiology of the suicidal process; stress & suicidal behaviours; the biological interface between psychotraumatic experiences & affective dysregulation; psychological aspects; personality constellations & suicidal behaviour; ethology; towards a psychobiological model; suicide risk assessment & the suicidal-process approach; the suicidal process & […]

This article examines the manner in which social structural & cultural variables will tend to cause one or another unconscious factor to be dominant or to determine differences in rates & form of suicide between groups or within groups. Specifically, it is suggested that it is the complex interrelationship between child-rearing patterns, adult role expectations, […]

A study of Chinese health statistics demonstrates a number of very unusual features in the mental health profiles of women; for example, there are more completed suicides among women than men, & more women than men are diagnosed with schizophrenia even though psychiatric hospital beds are disproportionately occupied by men. This article examines how the […]

This article examines distress as it affects men & women, particularly in relation to suicide & marriage. Although the overall rate of suicide is higher for men than for women, the two rates are much closer in Hong Kong than is the case in Western countries. This suggests that, among other things, marrige provides less […]

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This report presents statistics on the incidence of suicide in Ireland & Ireland versus other European Union states. Other topics discussed include deliberate self-harm & responses to this behaviour, social policy & social change, mental health services in Ireland, suicide & alcohol, & achievable targets in reducing suicide rates. Recommendations are made in the areas […]

This paper investigates philosophically the Japanese samurai notion & activity of seppuku, the traditional method of suicide among the warrior class. Seppuku follows prolonged physical, mental & social preparation, a period the author equates to physical training. The suicide of Yukio Mishima is discussed in this context. (10 refs.)

Factors that may contribute to elevated rates of suicide in rural communities in Australia were examined. A literature review found collective & contextual factors seem to be of particular importance as possible contributors to the elevated rate of suicide among rural males. These include rural socioeconomic decline, facilitators & barriers to service utilization such as […]

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Working Paper #5

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The world abounds in instruments with which people can kill each other. Is the widespread availability of one of these instruments, firearms, a crucial determinant of the incidence of murder? Or do patterns of murder and/or violent crime reflect basic socio-economic and/or cultural factors to which the mere availability of one particular form of weaponry […]