Rising Youth Suicide and the Changing Cultural Context in South Korea

Park, B. C. Ben; Im, Jeong Soo; Ratcliff, Kathryn Strother

doi:10.1027/0227-5910/a000237

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“…38 39 In addition, South Korean society is highly suicidal because of the rapid transition from an agrarian to industrial society within a half-century and prolonged economic hardship since the exchange crisis in 1997. 40 41 42 43 44 45 In a study of the prevalence of past experience with suicide ideation the rate was found to be 12.5% in males and 23.1% in females in South Korea. 46 Considering all the above, our results thus fall within a reasonable range.…”

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Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder and Hwa-byung in the General Korean Population

Joe

Lee

Kim

et al. 2017

Psychiatry Investig

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ObjectivePosttraumatic embitterment disorder (PTED) is characterized by states of “embitterment”, characteristically similar to “Hwa-byung”, which is a Korean culture-bound syndrome. The present study aimed to assess diagnostic relationships between PTED and Hwa-byung.MethodsA total of 290 participants completed our survey. PTED and Hwa-byung were diagnosed using a diagnostic interview and scale. Scales for depression, suicide ideation, and anger were used for evaluation. Fisher's exact tests and Mann-Whitney U tests were performed to evaluate diagnostic overlap between PTED and Hwa-byung, and associations of scale scores for depression, suicide ideation, and anger between the PTED, Hwa-byung, and non-diagnosed groups. Associations of these scales between the depressive and non-depressive groups, and suicidal and non-suicidal groups were also evaluated.ResultsAmong the participants, 1.7% of the sample fit the diagnostic criteria for PTED and 2.1% fit the criteria for Hwa-byung. No individual fit the criteria for both. Anger scores were significantly higher in the Hwa-byung group than in the non-diagnostic group. There were not any significant differences in anger scores between the PTED and non-diagnostic groups. Depression scores were significantly higher in the PTED than in the non-diagnostic groups. In contrast, no significant differences were observed between depression scores in the Hwa-byung and non-diagnostic groups.ConclusionThese results suggest that PTED may be a disorder category that is distinct from Hwa-byung.

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Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder and Hwa-byung in the General Korean Population

Joe

Lee

Kim

et al. 2017

Psychiatry Investig

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“…In particular, previous studies focusing on the role of public attitude toward suicide found a positive linkage between suicide acceptability and suicide behavior on both individual and aggregated levels (Agnew, 1998;Cutright & Fernquist, 2004;Joe, Romer, & Jamieson, 2007;Park, Im, & Ratcliff, 2014a, 2014bStack, 1998;Stack & Kposowa, 2008, 2011. Park (2013) argues that while cultural stigma may not serve as a significant force deterring suicidal behavior, changing cultural processes in modern Korea, along with individual pathology, may be contributing to such a sharp increase in suicide deaths.…”

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Cultural Stigma Manifested in Official Suicide Death in South Korea

Park

Ratcliff

2016

Omega (Westport)

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This article examines the cultural sources of underreported suicide deaths in South Korea. It analyzes two sets of suicide data compiled by two different government agencies. Noting the considerable undercounting of suicide deaths compiled by the National Statistical Office, it explores how the underreporting is linked to the Confucian norm of familism. Despite an effort to improve the quality of official suicide data, a reform in the death system is needed in order to gather accurate data for a better understanding of the increased suicides as well as for the development of more effective suicide prevention and intervention strategies.

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“…Poverty rural areas [28], food insufficiency [27], deteriorated housing [27] Social culture discrimination [27], suicide tolerance [28], family closeness [28], stressful environment [31] Individual behavior sedentary behavior [14], awkward social skills [14]and somatic symptoms [10] Life events victim of any type of abuse [30], bullying (particularly verbal bullying) [11], death of a close person [30] Demographics adolescent female [29], African American mothers [27], and elderly white male [31] The effects of suffering from depression are not limited to individual behavior, including insomnia, agitation, higher arousal than usual [34], lack of social skills [35], lack of positive affect appreciation [12], looking for similar role-models [36], lack of physical activity [15], but may also include suicidal ideation [36] and suicide of the individuals and similar behaviors of their family members [32,33]. For instance, children of parents with major depressive disorder tend to become depressed later in their life [33].…”

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A Scorecard Method for Detecting Depression in Social Media Users

Tefera¹,

Zhou²

2018

Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health disorders today. Depression has become the leading causes of disability and premature mortality partly due to a lack of effective methods for early detection. This research explores how social media can be used as a tool to detect the level of depression in its users by proposing a scorecard method based on their user profiles. In the proposed method, depression is measured by a selected set of key dimensions along with their specific indicators, which are weighted based on their importance for signaling depression in the literature. To evaluate the scorecard method, we compared three types of social media users: users who committed suicide due to depression, users who were likely suffering from depression, and users who were unlikely suffering from depression. The empirical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the scorecard method in detecting depression.

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Rising Youth Suicide and the Changing Cultural Context in South Korea

Cited by 22 publications

References 36 publications

Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder and Hwa-byung in the General Korean Population

Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder and Hwa-byung in the General Korean Population

Cultural Stigma Manifested in Official Suicide Death in South Korea

A Scorecard Method for Detecting Depression in Social Media Users

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