Building models for the relationship between attitudes toward suicide and suicidal behavior: Based on data from general population surveys in Sweden, Norway, and Russia

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 661-675

  Renberg, Ellinor Salander ^a   Hjelmeland, Heidi ^b,c   Koposov, And Roman ^d,e,f  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^d Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^f NORTHERN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RUSSIA; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SWEDEN;

EID: 61849172500     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2008.38.6.661     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. ARBUCKLE, J. L., and WOTHKE, W. (1995-99). Amos 4.0 user's guide. Chicago, IL: Small Waters Corporation.
2. BAYET, A. (1922). Le suicide et la morale. Paris: Felix Alcan.
3. BOLDT, M. (1989). Defining suicide. Implications for suicidal behavior and for suicide prevention. In R.F.W. Diekstra, S. R. Maris, S. Platt, A. Schmidtke, and G. Sonnek (Eds.), Suicide and its prevention: The role of attitude and imitation (pp. 5-13). Leiden: Canberrs, Brill.
4. BRADFORD BROWN, B., LARSEN, R. W., and SARASWATHI, T. S. (2002). The world's youth: Adolescence in eight regions of the globe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
5. BRENT, D., OQUENDO, M., BIRMAHER, B., GREENHILL, L., KOLKO, D., STANLEY, B., ET AL. (2002). Familial pathways to early-onset suicide attempt: Risk for suicidal behavior in offspring of mood-disordered suicide attempters. Archives of General Psychiatry, 59, 801-807.
6. BROWNE, M. W., and CUDECK, R. (1993). Alternative ways of assessing model fit. In K. A. Bollen and J. S. Long (Eds.), Testing structural equation models (pp. 136-162). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
7. CANETTO, S. S. (1992). She died for love and he for glory: Gender myths of suicidal behavior. Omega, 26, 1-17.
8. CARMINES, E. G., and MCIVER, J. P. (1981). Analyzing models with unobserved variables. In G. W. Bohrnstedt and E. F. Borgatta (Eds.), Social measurement: Current issues. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
9. CHERNYAKOV, V. V., SHKOLNIKOV, V. M., PRIDEMORE, W. A., and MCKEE, M. (2002). The changing nature of murder in Russia. Social Science and Medicine, 54, 1713-1724.
10. CLEARY, A., and BRANNIK, T. (2007). Suicide and changing values and beliefs in Ireland. Crisis, 28, 82-88.
11. COURTENAY, W. H. (2000). Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's wellbeing: A theory of gender and health. Social Science and Medicine, 50, 1385-1401.
12. DIEKSTRA, R.F.W., and KERKHOF, A.J.F.M. (1989). Attitudes towards suicide: The development of a suicide-attitude questionnaire (SUI ATT). In R.F.W. Diekstra, S. R. Maris, S. Platt, A. Schmidtke, and G. Sonnek (Eds.), Suicide and its prevention: The role of attitude and imitation (pp. 91-107). Leiden: Canberrs, Brill.
13. DOMINO, G. (2002). Community attitudes toward physician assisted suicide. Omega, 46, 199-214.
14. DOMINO, G. (2005). Cross-cultural attitudes towards suicide: The SOQ and a personal odyssey. Archives of Suicide Research, 9, 107-122.
15. DOMINO, G., MOORE, D., WESTLAKE, L., and GIBSON, L. (1982). Attitudes towards suicide: A factor analytic approach. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 38, 257-262.
16. DOMINO, G., SU, A., and JOHNSON, S. L. (2001). Psychosocial correlates of suicide ideation: A comparison of Chinese and U.S. rural women. Omega, 44, 371-389.
17. ESHUN, S. (2003). Sociocultural determinants of suicide ideation: A comparison between American and Ghanian samples. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 33, 165-171.
18. ETZERSDORFER, E., VIJAYKUMAR, L., SCHÖNY, W., GRAUSGRUBER, A., and SONNEK, G. (1998). Attitudes towards suicide among medical students: Comparison between Madras (India) and Vienna (Austria). Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 33, 104-110.
19. GIBB, B. E., ANDOVER, M. S., and BEACH, S.R.H. (2006). Suicidal ideation and attitudes toward suicide. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 36, 12-18.
20. GOSKOMSTAT RUSSIA. (2000). Database on suicide in Russia. Moscow.
21. HALMAN, L. (1993). Suicidal attitudes and modernizing society: Some methodological issues and results from the European Values Study. Paper presented at the seminar on Suicidal Behavior in Society: Methodological Aspects. Högberga Kursgård, Lidingö, Sweden.
22. HAWTON, K., FAGG, J., SIMKIN, S., BALE, E., and BOND, A. (1997). Trends in deliberate self-harm in Oxford, 1985-1995: Implications for clinical services and the prevention of suicide. British Journal of Psychiatry, 171, 556-560.
23. JOE, S., ROMER, D., and JAMIESON, P, E. (2007). Suicide acceptability is related to suicide planning in U.S. adolescents and young adults. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 37, 165-178.
24. KERKHOF, A.J.F.M., and NATHAWAT, S. S. (1989). Suicidal behavior and attitudes towards suicide among students in India and the Netherlands: A cross-cultural comparison. In R.F.W. Diekstra, S. R. Maris, S. Platt, A. Schmidtke, and G. Sonnek (Eds.), Suicide and its prevention: The role of attitude and imitation (pp. 144-159). Leiden: Canberrs, Brill.
25. LEE, M.T.Y., WONG, B. P., CHOW, B.W.Y., and MCBRIDE-CHANG, C. (2006). Predictors of suicide ideation and depression: Perceptions of academic and family climates. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 36, 82-96.
26. LEE, S., TSANG, A., LI, X. Y., PHILLIPS, M. R., and KLEINMAN, A. (2007). Attitudes toward suicide among Chinese people in Hong Kong. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 37, 565-575.
27. MELHEM, N. M., BRENT, D., ZIEGLER, M., IYENGAR, S., KOLKO, D., OQUENDO, M., ET AL. (2007). Familial pathways to early-onset suicidal behavior: Familial and individual antecedents of suicidal behavior. American Journal of Psychiatry, 164, 1364-1370.
28. MURPHY, G. E. (1998). Why women are less likely than men to commit suicide. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 39, 165-175.
29. NEELEMAN, J., and LEWIS, G. (1999). Suicide, religion, and socioeconomic conditions. An ecological study in 26 countries. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 53, 204-210.
30. PAYKEL, E. S., MYERS, J. K., LINDENTHAL, J. J., and TANNER, J. (1974). Suicidal feelings in the general population: A prevalence study. British Journal of Psychiatry, 124, 460-469.
31. PLATT, S. (1989). A subculture of parasuicide? In R.F.W. Diekstra, S. R. Maris, S. Platt, A. Schmidtke, and G. Sonnek (Eds.), Suicide and its prevention: The role of attitude and imitation (pp. 108-143). Leiden: Canberrs, Brill.
32. ROBERTSON, A., and COCHRANE, R. (1976). Attempted suicide and cultural change: An empirical investigation. Human Relations, 29, 863-883.
33. SALANDER RENBERG, E. (2001). Self-reported life-weariness, death-wishes, suicidal ideation, suicidal plans and suicide attempts in general population surveys in the north of Sweden 1986 and 1996. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 9, 429-436.
34. SALANDER RENBERG, E., and JACOBSSON, L. (1999). Some aspects of the dynamics in suicide rates and the relevance for prevention: A northern Swedish study, 1952-1995. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 53, 257-266.
35. SALANDER RENBERG, E., and JACOBSSON, L. (2001). A European collaboration project on prevention of suicide. In O. Grad (Ed.), Suicide risk and protective factors in the new millennium (pp. 269-272). CIP, Cankarjev dom: Ljubljana.
36. SALANDER RENBERG, E., and JACOBSSON, L. (2003). Development of a questionnaire on Attitudes Towards Suicide (ATTS) and its application in a Swedish population. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 33, 52-64.
37. SALANDER RENBERG, E., JIANG, G. X., OLSSON, L., ESTARI, J., and WASSERMAN, D. (2004). Suicidal behaviour in Sweden. In A. Schmidtke, U. Bille-Brahe, D. DeLeo, and Kerkhof (Eds.), Suicidal behaviour in Europe: Results from the WHO/EURO multicentre study on suicidal behaviour (pp. 69-84). Göttingen: Hogrefe and Huber.
38. SALE, I., WILLIAMS, C. L., CLARK, J., and MILLS, J. (1975). Suicide behavior: Community attitudes and beliefs. Suicide, 5, 158-168.
39. SARTORIOUS, N., and KUYKEN, W. (1994). Translation of health status instruments. In J. Orley and W. Kuyken (Eds.), Quality of life assessment: International perspectives (pp. 3-18). Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.
40. SCHMIDTKE, A. (1997). Perspective: Suicide in Europe. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 27, 127-136.
41. SCHMIDTKE, A., BILLE-BRAHE, U., DELEO, D., KERKHOF, A., BJERKE, T., CREPET, P., ET AL. (1996). Attempted suicide in Europe: Rates, trends and sociodemographic characteristics of suicide attempters during the period 1989-1992. Results of the WHO/EURO multicentre study on parasuicide. Acta Psychatrica Scandinavica, 93, 327-338.
42. SHAHAR, G., BAREKET, L., RUDD, D., and Joiner, T. (2006). In severely suicidal young adults, hopelessness, depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation constitute a single syndrome. Psychological Medicine, 36, 913-922.
43. STEIN, D., BROM, D., ELIZUR, A., and WITZTUM, E. (1998). The association between attitudes towards suicide and suicidal ideation in adolescents. Acta Psychatrica Scandinavica, 97, 195-201.
44. VAN HEERINGEN, K. (2001). The suicidal process and related concepts. In K. van Heeringen (Ed.), Understanding suicidal behaviour: The suicidal process approach to research, treatment and prevention (pp. 3-15). Wiley: Chichester.
45. WEBSTER, P. (2003). Suicide rates in Russia on the increase. The Lancet, 362, 220.