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A Study on the Cause of University Students Suicide Impulse and the Preventive Education

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2003, 6(), pp.81-105
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

김홍진 1

1천안외국어대학

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to analyze the cause of University Students suicide impulse in their suicide behavior as one of the social problems, and to present the necessity for the preventive education against it. This study analyzed the psychological, social, existential, pathological causes of the suicide impulse through the reports. As the universal result, melancholia(35.8%), there are human relationship(16.3%), family discord(14.0%), studies result(6.5%), card debt and financial poverty(5.1%), lose job(3.2%). As the concrete facts, psychological factors were guilt conscience, the grief over the loss of love, hatred, revenge, dispair, the self-maltreatment due to self-identity deprivation, despair, duplicate emotion, the desire to escape from unbearable pain, irrational posthumous view. The social factors were the difficulty from interpersonal relation, the problem of scholastic achievement, family destruction and poverty, family pathology, the environment exposed easily to suicide means. The existential factors. which might mean that human should be mortal, destroyed the meaning and will to live. The pathological factors were mental disease, melancholia, chronic disease, the deprivation to impulse control ability, stress, hunger, fatigue. Therefore as the preventive education against those suicide impulse factors, the education on the existence consciousness is necessary because erroneous consciousness of existence have a likely effect upon the suicide impulse. Besides the education about dignity of life and the view of the worth and the education about the view of the world after death. Especially the education on death is rather urgently necessary to our education in order to lead our honest and desirable life.

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