CURRENT SUICIDAL SITUATIONS WITHIN THE ROMANIAN AREA

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
DUMITRU STAN
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Suicidal Risk ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
Mitigating Circumstances

This article has been focussed on presentation of an older sociological issue – committing suicide /killing oneself – within new interpretative contexts specific to current Romanian society. The argumentation is therefore developed towards attracting three sustainable conclusions: a. right to property over one’s own body should not metamorphose into individual’s right to kill himself; b) no matter how many logical arguments we might have for committing suicide as a normal fact, it will naturally remain a pathological social fact; c. social actions against suiciding cannot otherwise be but ante factum. Consequently, social actors should be informed and get awareness on suicidal risk factors within the environment they are living in. This last aspect shall occupy the most part of the pages of this article. The conclusion of the whole approach is that no matter how many justifications, excuses and mitigating circumstances we may find, the suicidal act cannot be otherwise but traumatising and condemnable to society.

Protective Factors and Suicidality in Members of Arab Kindred

Crisis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami Hamdan ◽  
Nadine Melhem ◽  
Israel Orbach ◽  
Ilana Farbstein ◽  
Mohammad El-Haib ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Composite International Diagnostic Interview ◽  
Diagnostic Interview ◽  
Suicidal Risk ◽  
Arab Population ◽  
Psychiatric Interview ◽  
History Of

Background: Relatively little is known about the role of protective factors in an Arab population in the presence of suicidal risk factors. Aims: To examine the role of protective factors in a subsample of in large Arab Kindred participants in the presence of suicidal risk factors. Methods: We assessed protective and risk factors in a sample of 64 participants (16 suicidal and 48 nonsuicidal) between 15 and 55 years of age, using a comprehensive structured psychiatric interview, the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), self-reported depression, anxiety, hopelessness, impulsivity, hostility, and suicidal behavior in first-degree and second-relatives. We also used the Religiosity Questionnaire and suicide attitude (SUIATT) and multidimensional perceived support scale. Results: Suicidal as opposed to nonsuicidal participants were more likely to have a lifetime history of major depressive disorder (MDD) (68.8% vs. 22.9% χ2 = 11.17, p = .001), an anxiety disorder (87.5% vs. 22.9, χ2 = 21.02, p < .001), or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (25% vs. 0.0%, Fisher’s, p = .003). Individuals who are otherwise at high risk for suicidality have a much lower risk when they experience higher perceived social support (3.31 ± 1.36 vs. 4.96 ± 1.40, t = 4.10, df = 62, p < .001), and they have the view that suicide is somehow unacceptable (1.83 ± .10 vs. 1.89 ± .07, t = 2.76, df = 60, p = .008). Conclusions: Taken together with other studies, these data suggest that the augmentation of protective factors could play a very important role in the prevention of incidental and recurrent suicidal behavior in Arab populations, where suicidal behavior in increasing rapidly.

‘We will take care of you’: Identity categorisation markers in intercultural medical encounters

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-473
Author(s):  
Valentina Fantasia ◽  
Cristina Zucchermaglio ◽  
Marilena Fatigante ◽  
Francesca Alby
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Epistemic Authority ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Local Hospital ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
Tumour Board

Ethnomethodology research has systematically investigated discursive practices of categorisation, looking at the various ways by which social actors ascribe both themselves and others to identity categories to accomplish various kinds of social actions. Drawing on a data corpus of oncological visits collected in an Italian hospital, involving both native and non-native patients, the present work analyses how participants in these intercultural medical encounters invoke and make relevant social identity categories by the marking of collective pronouns in their talk. Our results showed that whilst institutional identities (e.g. those of the doctors, the local hospital or the Tumour Board) prevailed, categorial formulations related to cultural or linguistic identities were rarely displayed in interactions with non-native patients. Conversational participants made very little of their linguistical or cultural background and when they did so, their cultural and linguistic identities were deployed for rhetorical and pragmatical aims, such as testing and negotiating common knowledge and epistemic authority. This study shows how even speakers’ minimal lexical choices, such as marked pronouns, impact the negotiation of meanings and activities in life-saving sites such as oncological visits.

The Serious Suicide Attempts Approach for Understanding Suicide: Review of the Psychological Evidence

2020 ◽  
pp. 003022282098123
Author(s):  
Yossi Levi-Belz ◽  
Yari Gvion ◽  
Alan Apter
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Suicidal Risk ◽  
Suicide Attempters ◽  
Mental Pain ◽  
Pain Communication ◽  
Suicide Behavior ◽  
Interpersonal Difficulties ◽  
Communication Difficulties ◽  
Psychological Evidence

The study of survivors of a serious suicide attempt (SSA)––an attempt that would have been fatal had it not been for the provision of rapid and effective emergency treatment––can help researchers understand the suicidal mind. Serious suicide attempters are epidemiologically very similar to those who died by suicide, and thus can serve as valid proxies for studying suicides. In this paper, our objective was to briefly review the main risk factors that may facilitate more dangerous suicide behavior with high levels of intent. Our review highlights several dimensions of risk factors for SSAs, including psychopathology, mental pain, communication difficulties, decision-making impulsivity, and aggression. Several studies have indicated that the interaction between some of these dimensions, especially between mental pain and interpersonal difficulties, may serve as major catalysts for SSAs. Suicidal risk assessment should incorporate a designated evaluation of these risk factors as part of suicide prevention models.

scholarly journals Suicidal Risk Factors of Recurrent Major Depression in Han Chinese Women

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. e80030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuzhang Zhu ◽  
Hongni Zhang ◽  
Shenxun Shi ◽  
Jingfang Gao ◽  
Youhui Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Suicidal Risk

scholarly journals THE REPRESENTATION OF BASUKI TJAHAJA PURNAMA AND ANIES BASWEDAN IN THE GUARDIAN AND THE TIMES’ ARTICLES OF UNOFFICIAL QUICK COUNT RESULTS OF JAKARTA GOVERNOR ELECTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dian Kurniawati
Keyword(s):  
Visual Representation ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Content Evaluation ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Guardian

The aim of this paper is to present a critical discourse approach to compare two articles about unofficial quick count results of Jakarta Governor Election in The Guardian and The Times. Firstly, I will begin with the background analysis of why this issue is investigated and then I will explain how The Guardian and The Times represent social actors, social actions and visual representation of the social actors in their articles. Finally, I will discuss the content evaluation of these articles and end it with a conclusion. It can be concluded that both The Guardian and The Times use similar representational strategy to represent the main social actors. In their articles, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama is more activated and more prioritised despite being overtly described as a minority.

scholarly journals Sleep and Suicidal Risk Factors in Korean High School Students

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ja-Hyun Jeong ◽  
Yong-E Jang ◽  
Hae-Woo Lee ◽  
Hyun-Bo Shim ◽  
Jin-Sook Choi
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Suicidal Risk ◽  
School Students
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