Students' Implicit Suicide Attitude

Suicidal problem has always engaged all sections of society'sattention. After a great deal of researches have been done to find outits true colors, people gradually find some contradictions: even thoughsuicidal intention and despair are the major predictive factors ofsuicide ,there are many cases that some people who with serious suicidalintention and despair don't kill themselves. What's more, allow for thegreat difference in suicidal intention between two places, theirdisparity in suicide rate is not so wide. All these can not be explainedfrom way back by hereditary factors, cultural background or suicidalintention. Finally, people have come to realize another factor thatinfluence suicidal behavior——the attitude of suicide.In fact, none of the researchers in the field of sociological studiesof behavior would neglect the relationship between attitude and behavior,and they all agree to the idea that attitude has impact on human's act.Suicide is a particular human behavior, there would be irretrievable onceit has been done successfully. As a result, "How to guard against suicide"has become the most important point of this area. Now that attitude hasgreat impact on predicting human's behavior, and that studies of suicidehave revealed that there's short of attitudinal researches, it's feasibleand indispensable to go about suicide problem through attitude. Manyresearchers have taken notice the effect of attitude, and a lot ofinvestigations have been done presently. However, maybe it's becausebeginning at a comparatively late date, and because there's too much tobe learned, the study of attitude toward suicide is unconcerned withimplicit area.The studies of attitude point to the fact that attitudinalinvestigation needs to and is exploring the implicit area. As one partof it, suicidal attitude certainly cannot make exception. This paperinvestigates the participants' implicit attitude toward suicide by GNATbase on the reason above. Take the achievements of past studies intoconsideration, this paper divides into three experiments: In ecperimentl,participants need to evaluate suicidal behavior as "positive" or "negative"in order to achieve their implicit attitude toward suicide in these twodimensions; In ecperiment2, participants need to evaluate suicidalbehavior as "neutral "or "negative" in order to achieve their implicitattitude toward suicide in these two dimensions; In experiment3, thebackground of stimulus is manipulated in order to investigate theparticipants' implicit attitude toward the same object of differentbackground(daily use/suicidal instrument). Besides, the explicitattitude toward suicide is investigated as to make a comparison.Three conchsions are drawn by the research above: 1,The participants' implicit attitude toward suicide is negative.A same conclusion is drawn no matter it's needed to react to"positive/negative" dimension or "neutral/negative" dimension. Ithappens in the situation that the background of stimulus is manipulated,besides.2,Implicit attitude toward suicide has the same character of implicitattitude: stability and "variability". In term of implicit suicidalattitude itself, it's steady; but as far as the sensitivity of situationis concerned, it's "alterable", hence it indicates that the informationabout suicide can be activated automatically by extrinsic force thoughfurther research is needed to investigate its specific effect.3,Dual attitude is appeared in some of the participants, those whohave an explicit neutral, ambivalent suicidal attitude and implicitnegative suicidal attitude as well. Perhaps it's because theseparticipants had firstly found a negative implicit attitude through theinfluence of cultural and education, and then under the effect of suicidaltrend and extrinsic force, they found a neutral, ambivalent explicitattitude toward suicide.