How do young people in Cambodia perceive the impact of societal attitudes, media and religion on suicidal behaviour?

Abstract

Suicide prevention programmes should take into consideration the complex picture of suicide that young people are exposed to.

A qualitative systematic review of experiences and perceptions of youth suicide

“…At least five studies involved Caucasian participants [21, 23–26], four included Native American populations [27–30] while four involved Hispanic and Latina participants [23, 31–33]. At least one study each focused on participants from Nicaragua [34], Korea [22], Iran [35], Italy [36] and Cambodia [37], while other studies referenced included participants from a variety of ethnic backgrounds [38, 39]. In all studies which provided the gender of participants, there were more female participants, except one which had equal representation of gender [36].…”

“…Most studies involved data from young people who had experienced suicidal ideation and some additionally provided their parent/caregiver’s testimony [32, 40, 41]. Some studies focused on data from members of the wider community and their thoughts about youth suicide [23, 26, 28, 30, 37, 39, 42] or those who worked with [43] or knew [44] a young person who had attempted suicide. At least three of the included studies took place in schools [37, 44, 45], while others included interviews in treatment facilities [36, 40, 43] and post-discharge [34, 46].…”

“…Spirituality was another common theme throughout these studies. Some found that developing a stronger relationship with God [24] helped in their recovery, while others felt that their religion discouraged suicidality [22, 34, 37, 43]. Spirituality was not, however, always discussed as a way of recovering.…”

“…At the community level, many studies explored commonly held beliefs within society. Most prevalent was the negative stigma associated with suicide [37, 39, 43]. Many attempting suicide believed they would be judged poorly following an attempt [25, 29, 33, 39] or for expressing negative thoughts and feelings [25, 26, 42].…”

Improving Employees Behavior through Extension in Theory of Planned Behavior: A Theoretical Perspective for SMEs

“…There are literature which show the relationship of religion/ religiosity to individual behavior (Batson, Schoenrade, & Ventis, 1993;Hoffmann, 2013;Jegannathan, Kullgren, & Dahlblom, 2016), political behavior (Jelen, 1998;Layman, 1997;Wallace & Williams, 1997), economic and demographic behavior (Lehrer, 2004), health and related behavior (Benjamins & Buck, 2008;Koenig, 2001;Sullivan, 2010), sexual behaviors (Adamczyk & Hayes, 2012),volunteering behavior (Lim & MacGregor, 2012), pro-social and helpful behavior (Saroglou, Pichon, Trompette, Verschueren, & Dernelle, 2005), family behavior (Bulanda, 2011),marriage behavior (Booth, Johnson, Branaman, & Sica, 1995) and most importantly, employee/ executive behavior (Ford & Richardson, 1994;Morris, Venkatesh, & Ackerman, 2005;Van Breukelen, Van der Vlist, & Steensma, 2004;Weaver & Agle, 2002). Hence, the religiosity factor didn't check with facets of TPB before in literature, this paper proposed that religious orientation constructed by Allport and Ross (1967)would enhance the impact on behavior with three facets of TPB to predicting the behavior of employees in SMEs set up.…”