Research of the Relationship among Happiness, Attachment and Suicide Ideation of Adolescents for High School and Vocational School Students

• Main Authors: Cheng-gen Ye, 葉成根
• Other Authors: Shu-ling Cho
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51048491153767998698

碩士 === 南華大學 === 生死學研究所 === 97 === 　　By means of positive expectation, researchers can effectively predict suicidal risks, which has been forwarded by a small number of scholars. However, the related evidences to verify the supposition are still limited. The study aims to deal with the suicidal ideation of adolencents from the angles of sense of happiness, well-being, and attachment of relationship in order to clarify the role of positive force. First, I used two preliminary studies to adjust the measuring tools, through which got to the conclusion of the structural factors of measuring tools. In the process of the formal study, considering the developmental gaps between urban and rural areas, we selected students from two respective schools out of these in northern, central, southern, and eastern parts of Taiwan as the sample group subjects. They are 1th through 3rd graders from senior high schools and vocational high schools in Taipei City, Taoyuan County,Taichung County, Nantou City, Chiayi County, Tainan County, Hualien county and Taitung County, Penghu County. The survey was conducted by distributing 2,430 questionaires to the subjects and the valid questionaires were2,289. Tools for the research were based on the latest compiled ”The Scale of Happiness”,“The Scale of well-being ”, “ The Scale of Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment ”,“ The Scale of suicidal ideation”. 　　 　　Based on t test, one-way ANOVA, canonical correlation, the pathway analysis of structural equation modeling, and other methods for statistical analysis, the results are as follows: 1. In the process of verifying the hypothesis, most variables such as suicidal ideation, the feeling of hepiness, attachment to mothers and fathers respectively and peer attachment are verified while there is small portion of support in the sense of well-being, which shows different dimensions in personal attributive variables. 　 2. We analyzed the relationship between variables and suicidal ideation with " canonical correlation " analysis and found: (1) The lower the degree of being confident and hopeful in the feeling of happiness gets, the stronger “the strength of suicidal ideation” becomes. (2) The higher the degree of " trust and respect" in attachment to mothers shows, the stronger one’s " reason of living on " in the suicidal ideation becomes. The lower the degree of " trust and respect" in attachment to fathers shows, the weaker one’s " reason of living on " in the suicidal ideation becomes. The higher the degree in peer attachment, the feeling of being annoyed and alienated is, the stronger “the strength of suicidal ideation” shows. (3) The lower the degree of "living positively "in the sense of well-being as to senior high school and vocational school students is, the stronger “the strength of suicidal ideation” shows. 　 3. Through structural equation modeling and the pathway of analysis by ways of cause and effect, we found: Attachment to mothers, the sense of well-being are two derogative elements which can effectively reduce suicidal ideation. A sense of well-being holds the most indications on suicidal ideation. Other variables such as feelings of happiness can only be used as means of predicting suicidal ideation. 　　 　　This results agree with Hsu Wen-yao’s argument (2006) that living positively has a direct impact on preventing suicide attempts for those who choose to commit suicide. After validating the impact of positive forces on suicidal ideation, we no porpose certain discussions releant to the above-mentioned results in hope of cracking down on adolescent sucidal ideation.