The trend in suicide methods in South Korea in 1997–2015
© 2017 Taylor & Francis. South Korea exhibited the highest crude suicide rate in the world. To better understand this phenomenon, the author analyzed all suicides in South Korea from 1997 to 2015 and charted the trend in suicide methods by gender. Over time, both genders rapidly chose hanging...
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| description | © 2017 Taylor & Francis. South Korea exhibited the highest crude suicide rate in the world. To better understand this phenomenon, the author analyzed all suicides in South Korea from 1997 to 2015 and charted the trend in suicide methods by gender. Over time, both genders rapidly chose hanging for suicide at the expense of drug/pesticide poisoning. Gassing was hardly used in the beginning, but its recent gain in use is noteworthy. Including undetermined deaths did not change the main results. The author regressed hanging on demographics and found that hanging was particularly chosen by ever-married men of prime working age with a respectable level of education. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-619492018-02-01T05:57:03Z The trend in suicide methods in South Korea in 1997–2015 Sohn, Kitae © 2017 Taylor & Francis. South Korea exhibited the highest crude suicide rate in the world. To better understand this phenomenon, the author analyzed all suicides in South Korea from 1997 to 2015 and charted the trend in suicide methods by gender. Over time, both genders rapidly chose hanging for suicide at the expense of drug/pesticide poisoning. Gassing was hardly used in the beginning, but its recent gain in use is noteworthy. Including undetermined deaths did not change the main results. The author regressed hanging on demographics and found that hanging was particularly chosen by ever-married men of prime working age with a respectable level of education. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/61949 10.1080/07481187.2016.1271837 Routledge restricted |
| spellingShingle | Sohn, Kitae The trend in suicide methods in South Korea in 1997–2015 |
| title | The trend in suicide methods in South Korea in 1997–2015 |
| title_full | The trend in suicide methods in South Korea in 1997–2015 |
| title_fullStr | The trend in suicide methods in South Korea in 1997–2015 |
| title_full_unstemmed | The trend in suicide methods in South Korea in 1997–2015 |
| title_short | The trend in suicide methods in South Korea in 1997–2015 |
| title_sort | trend in suicide methods in south korea in 1997–2015 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/61949 |