SOC 2106 Lecture 16: Dev 16

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2106
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Threatening: suicide threateners are explicit in communicating their suicide intentions to others. Attempting: suicide attempters are less explicit with their suicidal messages but more likely to actually end their lives. Committing: suicide committers may have threatened or attempted suicide (or neither) in the past. May feel depressed, apologetic, vindictive towards others, angry with themselves, magnanimous, or surrealistic just before they die. Higher rates among residents in sparsely (than in densely) populated areas or in rural than in urban areas. Whites, less religious, men, divorced, older, affluent. Relatively rational, well-off, well-educated, young, male, single. They do not work alone but instead receive significant support from terrorist organizations. Going through adolescence: teenage suicide rate had increased sharply over the last four decades because of declining social integration and control in the teenagers" life. Going to college: college students are more likely than before due to increased stress and diminishing support to cope with stress.