A Cross-Cultural Research On Suicide Attitude And Life Meaning Of Middle School Students

Suicide related to the quality of life and survival value, which is the most important issue worthy of our rational thinking. Suicide influenced suicide ideation, and then influenced the incidence of suicide. And suicidal behavior is a considerable difference in different cultures. In addition, the attitude about life and death have played an important role in the young student suicides. In this study, Han, Hui, Tibetan nation's three middle school students were tested, used test and focus group discussion to explore the attitudes of suicide and the meaning of life and their development, and the relationships of the suicide attitude and the meaning of life focus. The main results are as follows:(1) Students holding contradictory or neutral attitude to suicide on the whole. Gender, family origin, family relations and other variables had little impact on suicide attitude, but variable of the nation, grade, parents's degree of religious belief had significant differences in the attitude of the various dimensions of suicide. Along with the increase of age, the secondary's attitude of suicide tends to affirm or understanding; Han students recognition suicide more, euthanasia, the attitude of Muslim students, it is against or denial, and Tibetan middle. Consequently, the different ethnic religious beliefs of students played a significant role.(2) Students groups had a low sense of the meaning of life, and tend to exist emptiness. The factors of life meaning in Gender, family origin, parents's degree of religious belief family relations had little significant difference, but variable of the nation, grade, had significant differences. National differences in performance : Han secondary goal in life, good sense of self, Muslim students look forward to the future better than the Han, Tibetan better than Han in escape. Grade differences in the performance of the lower grade , the more advantages in the future and look forward to escape dimension.(3) There was close relationship between the meaning of life focus and suicide attitude. Individuals which had clear meaning of life, opposed to suicide and euthanasia; Individuals which had no clear meaning of life, authorized suicide and euthanasia. Specifically, goal in life more clearly, the higher the degree of personal and suicidal behavior in a more negative attitude, enthusiasm for life higher Suicides were on the more discrimination. Rather, the individual which meaning of life is not clear on suicide and euthanasia, with attitude of approval and acceptance.(4) The religious beliefs of different ethnic students had important influence to the meaning of life and suicide attitudes. For students of different nationalities had different psychological coping mechanisms to bad experience. In this process, Religion, the view to life and suicide were cognitive basis of psychological stress.