Epidemic suicide among micronesian adolescents

Rubinstein, Donald H.

doi:10.1016/0277-9536(83)90372-6

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“…The researchers attributed the increase in problems to the confusion that young people experienced between the values of their traditional cultures and the values of the West. Increases in recent decades, sometimes steep, in rates of suicide and suicide attempts have also been reported by a considerable number of researchers working in Pacific societies, parts of Sri Lanka, and Native American cultures (Booth 1999;Hezel 1987;Johnson and Tomren 1999;Kearney and Miller 1985;MacPherson and MacPherson 1987;Novins et al 1999;Reser 1990;Robinson 1990;Rubinstein 1983). At a general level, researchers have attributed the increases in suicide to youth feeling alienated from both local and global values.…”

Section: Cultural Identity Confusionmentioning

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Navigating Local and Global Worlds: Opportunities and Risks for Adolescent Cultural Identity Development

Jensen

2011

Psychol Stud

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This essay focuses on the opportunities and risks that adolescents face when developing cultural identities in the context of globalization. It starts by illustrating how globalization entails that adolescents increasingly have interactions with people from diverse cultures in myriad domains. Adolescents navigate local and global worlds, for example, with regard to language, diet, dating, and work. With the exposure to diverse cultures, new opportunities and risks arise. The nature of and evidence for three of these are highlighted. One is the risk of adolescent cultural identity confusion, with attendant internalizing and externalizing pathological behaviors. A second is the emergence of cultural gaps between adolescents and parents, a phenomenon that may constitute both a risk and a necessity. The third issue discussed is the way that globalization may open up more opportunities for youth civic involvement, even if such involvement sometimes aims to resist globalization.

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Section: Cultural Identity Confusionmentioning

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Navigating Local and Global Worlds: Opportunities and Risks for Adolescent Cultural Identity Development

Jensen

2011

Psychol Stud

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“…Les exemples les plus extrêmes proviennent d'adolescents forcés à migrer sur de longues distances à l'intérieur de leur propre pays afin d'être scolarisés dans un univers culturel tout à fait aliénant. De telles politiques radicales, menées auprès des Ojibway du Canada (Spaulding, 1985-86) et dans les îles Truk et Marshalls du Pacifique sud par les Américains (Rubinstein, 1983), ont donné lieu à des taux de suicide chez les adolescents parmi les plus élevés au monde, soit de 60 pour 100,000 dans le premier cas et de 150 pour 100,000 dans le deuxième.…”

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La santé mentale des migrants : analyse de son contexte social et longitudinal

Tousignant

2008

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RÉSUMÉ La santé mentale des migrants est affectée par plusieurs facteurs qui relèvent à la fois des expériences pré-migratoires et des conditions d'adaptation au pays hôte. L'interaction entre ces deux niveaux de facteurs évolue cependant en fonction du temps, marqué tantôt de périodes de relatif équilibre, tantôt de perturbations inattendues comme si le processus de migration n'était jamais complété. L'âge d'arrivée dans un nouveau pays est aussi fort important, les adolescents ayant à affronter plusieurs demandes simultanées et les personnes aînées n'ayant plus les ressources personnelles pour assimiler une nouvelle culture. Par ailleurs, l'adaptation s'opère à l'intérieur d'un système familial où le destin de chacun des membres influe sur celui des autres. Le texte offre quelques réflexions sur la prévention qui découlent en partie des considérations de la littérature scientifique.

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“…* In 1911 a commission of the American Academy of Medicine and the American Medical Association was concerned with the presumed modelling impact of newspaper reports on suicide (Hemenway, 1911). In more recent studies there are repeated references to epidemics of suicides or the imitation of suicidal acts among schoolchildren (Ringel et al 1955;Harbauer, 1978), among adolescents (Robbins & Conroy, 1983;Rubinstein, 1983;Doan, 1984;Fox et al 1984;Taylor, 1984), in institutions (Crawford & Willis, 1966;Matthews, 1968;Olin, 1980;Rada & James, 1982;Walsh & Rosen, 1985) or in particular ethnic populations (Ward & Fox, 1977;Rubinstein, 1983). However, all these previous observations, as well as the results of studies lacking a satisfactorily elaborated theoretical basis, are in themselves inadequate for the demonstration of a causal relationship between model behaviour and imitation.…”

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The Werther effect after television films: new evidence for an old hypothesis

1988

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SYNOPSIS In this study it was possible to prove the Werther effect in suicides after watching fictional models for the first time. A twice-broadcast (1981, 1982) six-episode weekly serial showing the railway suicide of a 19-year-old male student provided a quasi-experimental ABABA design to investigate differential effects of suicide imitation. Imitation effects were most clearly observable in the groups whose age and sex were closest to those of the model. Over extended periods (up to 70 days after the first episode), the number of railway suicides increased most sharply among 15-to 19-year-old males (up to 175%); the effect steadily decreased in the older age groups, so that no effect was observable for males over 40 years and females over 30 years. Also, the imitation effects remained detectable for longer periods in the groups closest in age to the model. The increases observed after the first and second broadcast for males aged < 30 years closely corresponded with the respective audience figures for the two showings.

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Epidemic suicide among micronesian adolescents

Cited by 80 publications

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Navigating Local and Global Worlds: Opportunities and Risks for Adolescent Cultural Identity Development

Navigating Local and Global Worlds: Opportunities and Risks for Adolescent Cultural Identity Development

La santé mentale des migrants : analyse de son contexte social et longitudinal

The Werther effect after television films: new evidence for an old hypothesis

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