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Do suicides' characteristics influence survivors' emotions?

Barbara Schneider1, Kristin Grebner, Axel Schnabel

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Center of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, and Psychotherapy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany. B.Schneider@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior
|April 8, 2011
PubMed
Summary

Survivors experienced more emotional distress when the deceased individual was younger. The age of the person who died was the primary factor influencing survivor emotions, more so than other characteristics.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Public Health

Background:

  • Suicide profoundly impacts survivors, causing severe emotional distress.
  • A significant gap exists in understanding how suicide characteristics affect survivor emotions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the correlation between sociodemographic and diagnostic data of suicides and survivors' emotional responses.
  • To identify key factors influencing survivor emotional disturbance after suicide.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of sociodemographic data, diagnostic information, and suicide methods.
  • Multivariable statistical approach to assess relationships between suicide characteristics and survivor emotions.

Main Results:

  • Survivor emotional disturbance severity was inversely correlated with the age of the suicide victim.
  • Age of the suicide victim was the only significant predictor across most survivor emotions.
  • Gender, psychiatric disorder, and suicide method did not show significant associations with survivor emotions.

Conclusions:

  • The age of the individual who died is a dominant factor influencing survivors' emotional reactions.
  • Age supersedes other suicide characteristics, including diagnoses, in its impact on survivor emotional well-being.