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A Study on Psychosocial Mechanism of Copycat Suicide among Adolescents

Nam soon hyeon 1

1호남대학교

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Recently suicide rates get serious as much as exceeding traffic accident rates. Especially, it is reported that 47% of adolescents have ever felt the impulse to kill themselves and so adolescent suicide became a serious social issue. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to grasp seriousness of adolescent suicide and to investigate an effect of developmental characteristics of an adolescence and cultural identify confusion on adolescent copycat suicide. The research investigated with 450 middle school, high school and university students from 13 years old to 22 years old from June 7, 2007 to June 25, 2007. The results were as follows. First, we could know seriousness of adolescent suicide as 208(46.2%) adolescents who felt the impulse to kill themselves more than once, 76(16.9%) adolescents who experienced self-injury or suicide attempt more than once and 214(47.5%) adolescents who have ever been in a serious suicidal ideation. Second, adolescents with a strong individualism didn't feel a psychological happiness in comparison with adolescents with a collectivism, but didn't go through psychosocial maladjustment. Third, adolescents with a strong individualism didn't have depression though they didn't feel a psychological happiness. Namely, they didn't have a psychosocial maladjustment or escape from the self but rather had an unrealistic optimism for the future. Finally, as the result analyzing a causal model about adolescent copycat suicide using AMOS, adolescents's psychological unhappiness by cultural identify confusion promoted significant depressogenic attribution about main accidents (Academic achievement level). Such a tendency was amplified by a public characters' suicide (The deceased actress Lee, Eun Joo) and it was appeared that suicide accidents were caused by a pathological identification and a normative social influence which adolescents, they believed, followed their suicide acts to escape from a psychological unhappiness and came to commit an copycat suicide.

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