Attitudes toward Suicide and Suicidal Risk among Younger and Older Persons

Autor/inn/en	Segal, Daniel L.; Mincic, Melissa S.; Coolidge, Frederick L.; O'Riley, Alisa
Titel	Attitudes toward Suicide and Suicidal Risk among Younger and Older Persons
Quelle	In: Death Studies, 28 (2004) 7, S.671-678 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0748-1187
Schlagwörter	Cultural Context; Suicide; Older Adults; Attitude Measures; Age Differences; Risk; Undergraduate Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Selbstmord; Älterer Erwachsener; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Risiko
Abstract	Despite a burgeoning literature on some aspects of elder suicide, little is known about the specific attitudes that older people hold about suicide. The present study examined attitudes toward suicide and suicidal risk among 96 younger and 79 older adults. Participants completed the Suicide Opinion Questionnaire and the Suicide Risk Scale. Regarding suicidal risk, younger adults scored significantly higher than older adults. Regarding attitudes, older adults scored significantly higher than younger adults on 7 of 15 subscales, indicating that for older adults, suicide was more acceptable, more strongly related to a lack of religious conviction, more lethal, more normal, more irreversible or permanent, more strongly related to demographics, and more strongly related to individual aspects. An implication is that older adults hold both adaptive and maladaptive attitudes about suicide that may be useful in providing a social and cultural context to the study, prevention, and treatment of elder suicide. (Author).
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