THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL SUPPORT, SUGGESTION AND DEPRESSION ON SUICIDAL-BEHAVIOR AMONG ICELANDIC YOUTH
THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL SUPPORT, SUGGESTION AND DEPRESSION ON SUICIDAL-BEHAVIOR AMONG ICELANDIC YOUTH
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10.1177/000169939403700204
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发表时间：
1994-08-01
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影响因子：
1.7
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BJARNASON, T
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作者：
BJARNASON, T
涂尔干对自杀的社会原因的处理一直是社会学理论的核心，特别是社会学对自杀的处理。理解自杀的两个主要替代范式是自杀暗示和抑郁。这两种范式都来自涂尔干所拒绝的19世纪的观点。在本文中，试图把它们放在一起，在一个单一的因果模型的自杀行为，涉及整合，建议和心理困扰。有人认为，社会支持实际上是社会融合的主要保护方面，社会支持可能与自杀暗示一起通过抑郁直接或间接地影响自杀行为。关于冰岛青年两个群体的全部人口的调查数据被随机分为模型估计和模型测试样本。自杀行为的因果关系模型，包括精神和物质支持的家庭和他人，抑郁症和自杀的建议，然后估计和结构方程模型检验。自杀行为被认为是最强烈的影响，由家庭的精神支持和自杀的建议，抑郁症作为一个干预变量。
Durkheim's treatment of the social causes of suicide has remained central to sociological theory in general and to sociological treatment of suicide in particular. The two main alternative paradigms for understanding suicide are suicide suggestion and depression. Both these paradigms are derived from 19th-century perspectives rejected by Durkheim. In this paper an attempt is made to bring them together in a single causal model of suicidal behavior involving integration, suggestion and psychological distress. It is argued that social support is in fact the main protective aspect of social integration, and that social support may in conjunction with suicide suggestion influence suicidal behavior both directly and indirectly through depression. Survey data on the whole population of Icelandic youth in two cohorts are split randomly into model estimation and model testing samples. A causal model of suicidal behavior, involving mental and material support by family and by others, depression and suicide suggestion is then estimated and tested by structural equation modeling. Suicidal behavior is found to be most strongly affected by mental support by family and by suicide suggestion, with depression as an intervening variable.