Cross-National Comparisons of Attitudes Towards Suicide and Suicidal Persons in University Students From 12 Countries

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Eskin M¹ ; Kujan O² ; Voracek M³ ; Shaheen A⁴ ; Carta MG⁵ ; Sun JM⁶ ; Flood C⁷ ; Poyrazli S⁸ ; Janghorbani M⁹ ; Yoshimasu K¹⁰ ; Mechri A¹¹ ; Khader Y¹² ; Aidoudi K¹¹ ; Bakhshi S⁹ Show All Authors

Eskin M¹
Kujan O²
Voracek M³
Shaheen A⁴
Carta MG⁵
Sun JM⁶
Flood C⁷
Poyrazli S⁸
Janghorbani M⁹
Yoshimasu K¹⁰
Mechri A¹¹
Khader Y¹²
Aidoudi K¹¹
Bakhshi S⁹
Harlak H¹³
Ahmead M¹⁴
Moro MF⁵
Nawafleh H¹⁵
Phillips L⁷
Abuderman A¹⁶
Tran US³
Tsuno K¹⁰

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1. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey
2. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Sciences, Al-Farabi College for Dentistry and Nursing, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
3. Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, School of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria
4. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, West Bank, Palestine
5. Department of Public Health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Cagliari, Italy
6. Department of Psychology and School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
7. School of Health Sciences, City University of London, United Kingdom
8. School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg, Middletown, PA, United States
9. School of Public Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
10. Department of Hygiene, School of Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan
11. Department of Psychiatry, University hospital of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia
12. Department of Community Medicine, Public Health and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Irbid, Jordan
13. Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey
14. School of Public Health, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine
15. Princess Aisha Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma'an, Jordan
16. College of Medicine, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia

Source: Scandinavian Journal of Psychology Published:2016

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This paper reports the results of a comparative investigation of attitudes to suicide and suicidal persons in 5,572 university students from 12 countries. Participants filled out two scales measuring attitudes towards suicide and suicidal persons, a measure of psychological distress together with the questions about suicidal behavior. Results showed that the highest suicide acceptance scores were observed in Austrian, UK, Japanese and Saudi Arabian samples and the lowest scores were noted in Tunisian, Turkish, Iranian and Palestinian samples. While the highest social acceptance scores for a suicidal friend were noted in Turkish, US, Italian and Tunisian samples, the lowest scores were seen in Japanese, Saudi Arabian, Palestinian and Jordanian samples. Compared to participants with a suicidal past, those who were never suicidal displayed more internal barriers against suicidal behavior. Men were more accepting of suicide than women but women were more willing to help an imagined suicidal peer. Participants with accepting attitudes towards suicide but rejecting attitudes towards suicidal persons reported more suicidal behavior and psychological distress, and were more often from high suicide rate countries and samples than their counterparts. They are considered to be caught in a fatal trap in which most predominant feelings of suicidality such as hopelessness or helplessness are likely to occur. We conclude that in some societies such as Japan and Saudi Arabia it might be difficult for suicidal individuals to activate and make use of social support systems. © 2016 Scandinavian Psychological Associations and John Wiley & Sons Ltd

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MLA	Eskin M, et al.. "Cross-National Comparisons of Attitudes Towards Suicide and Suicidal Persons in University Students From 12 Countries." Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, vol. 57, no. 6, 2016, pp. 554-563.
APA	Eskin M, Kujan O, Voracek M, Shaheen A, Carta MG, Sun JM, Flood C, Poyrazli S, Janghorbani M, Yoshimasu K, Mechri A, Khader Y, Aidoudi K, Bakhshi S, Harlak H, Ahmead M, Moro MF, Nawafleh H, Phillips L, ... Tsuno K (2016). Cross-National Comparisons of Attitudes Towards Suicide and Suicidal Persons in University Students From 12 Countries. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 57(6), 554-563.
Chicago	Eskin M, Kujan O, Voracek M, Shaheen A, Carta MG, Sun JM, Flood C, et al.. "Cross-National Comparisons of Attitudes Towards Suicide and Suicidal Persons in University Students From 12 Countries." Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 57, no. 6 (2016): 554-563.
Harvard	Eskin M et al. (2016) 'Cross-National Comparisons of Attitudes Towards Suicide and Suicidal Persons in University Students From 12 Countries', Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 57(6), pp. 554-563.
Vancouver	Eskin M, Kujan O, Voracek M, Shaheen A, Carta MG, Sun JM, et al.. Cross-National Comparisons of Attitudes Towards Suicide and Suicidal Persons in University Students From 12 Countries. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 2016;57(6):554-563.
BibTex	@article{ author = {Eskin M and Kujan O and Voracek M and Shaheen A and Carta MG and Sun JM and Flood C and Poyrazli S and Janghorbani M and Yoshimasu K and Mechri A and Khader Y and Aidoudi K and Bakhshi S and Harlak H and Ahmead M and Moro MF and Nawafleh H and Phillips L and Abuderman A and Tran US and Tsuno K}, title = {Cross-National Comparisons of Attitudes Towards Suicide and Suicidal Persons in University Students From 12 Countries}, journal = {Scandinavian Journal of Psychology}, volume = {57}, number = {6}, pages = {554-563}, year = {2016} }
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