An Analysis of Suicide Concepts

Kim, Yong Boon; Lee, Jeong Seop

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Journal of Korean Academy of psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2003;12(4):394-401.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2003.12.4.394 Published online December 31, 2003.

An Analysis of Suicide Concepts

Yong Boon Kim¹, Jeong Seop Lee²

¹Doctoral Course at Department of Nursing, Hanyang University, Instructor, Department of Nursing, Suncheon Cheongam College
²Prqfessor, Department of Nursing, Medical College, Hanyang University

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김용분¹, 이정섭²

¹한양대학교 박사과정, 한양대학교 간호발전연구소 연구원, 순천청암대학강사
²한양대학교 의과대학 간호학과 교수

Abstract

Recently, the rate of suicides has been increasing due to people’s worsening mental health caused by accelerated industrialization/ urbanization, increasing nuclear families or disintegrating family system, aging population and other demographic and socio-economic changes. Since the suicides increase enough not to be neglected any longer, it is urgent to arrange some political anti-suicide measures as well as some specific service and prevention programs. Under such circumstances, this study was aimed at analyzing the suicide concepts and thereby, providing for some basic data useful to nursing interventions in prevention of suicides. According to Walker & Avant's(1983) framework of conceptual analysis, the suicide concept may break down into such attributes as agony, liberation, expression, impulse, threat and expectancy. The prerequisite factors of suicide are failed love, shame and slander, dishonor or stem military rules, orders requiring individual sacrifices, frustrated sincerity and belief, political crisis, poverty and over-confidence, unfair treatment and mental pain, psychiatric diseases, etc. After all, those who committed suicide had suffered from hopeless sense of despair for their life, sense of inertia, alienation, isolation and depression, while feeing a sense of emptiness without any conviction about themselves and their future. Such factors are combined to explode, making the victims resort to suicide after all. Since this study was designed to analyze the suicide concept to make people understand the phenomenon of suicide comprehensively, it is believed that it has provided for some basic data useful to development of a proper and effective nursing intervention in suicides.

Key Words: Suicide; Concept analysis

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