How Knowledge of Extenuating Circumstances Influences Community Reactions toward Suicide Victims and Their Bereaved Families.

Range, Lillian M.; Martin, Stephen K.

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ERIC Number: EJ421035

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1990

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How Knowledge of Extenuating Circumstances Influences Community Reactions toward Suicide Victims and Their Bereaved Families.

Range, Lillian M.; Martin, Stephen K.

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, v21 n3 p191-98 1990

Examined how circumstances of a suicide victim's life may influence people's responses in college students (n=180) who read a fictitious newspaper article about a man who committed suicide following psychological pain, physical pain, or terminal illness. Results indicated that subjects were intolerant of suicide when the victim was suffering from psychological pain. (Author/ABL)

Descriptors: Attitudes, College Students, Depression (Psychology), Grief, Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Pain, Suicide, Terminal Illness

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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