The Correlation of Self-Esteem and Suicide

Self-Esteem can be harmful and make people very self centered, but others lack confidence and need a boost of self-esteem. Self-esteem is a very important factor in various reasons that happens in people’s daily life. With no type of thought people don’t think or take self-esteem with importance without realizing that self-esteem is a huge thing that us humans depend for our daily activities. Some shifts that have happened toward self- esteem over the past few decades were the fact that many people don’t really get an effect of having a boost of self-esteem in order for them to reach success. Therefore, self-esteem is not important in the success of individuals but it is important in their well being and psychological health.

The concept of self esteem is widespread in life. When it comes to academics and extracurricular actives people associate high self esteem is necessary for success. Society makes promoting self esteem an important goal. With that in mind, it is surprising that only recently scientific literature began providing insight into the nature of development of self esteem.

The rate of suicide, the act or an instance of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally, increases each year. “More adolescents die each year from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease, combined” (Preventing Teen Suicide, 2016, p.2). These facts show suicide is a serious problem among teens. Last year, teen suicide became the second leading cause of death in the United States confirming the significant increase in teen suicides.

Harter carries forward the work of James (1993) and Cooley. Those with low self-esteem are almost certainly depressed and among many adolescent’s, such depression, in turn, leads to thoughts of suicide. There are multiple pathways to depression representing different combinations of feelings lack of support from peers and parents.

The definition of suicide is the act of intentionally causing one’s own death. Suicides happen every day and the emotional impact such an act has on individuals, families, and communities is devastating and tragic. Unfortunately, suicide has become a much bigger social issue than society likes to admit. Many people seem to think of teenage years as their happiest years in life but what others do not know is that someone can be suffering from pain caused by an emotional or environmental issue. Suicide prevention should be an important subject in schools, work places, and even at home. Family and friends should not have to face repercussions and guilt after one has decided to take their own life; these peers should be aware and have

&Donovick (2005) discuss how approximately 30% of all offenders have engaged in some form of self-harm behaviour during the course of their incarceration. While some articles discuss how they are in fact one and the same and have the influence to impact each other, other articles depict self-harm and suicide to be mutually exclusive. This is evident when the Canadian Center on Substance Abuse (2006) states, “Research suggests that self-harm and suicide attempts have different intents, etiologies, bodily harms, frequency and methods. Suicidal acts are oriented toward ending pain and suffering through the end of life, while self-harm is viewed as a method of coping” (p. 2, 2006). They additionally share that some studies show an increase in suicide rates in those who have been subject to self-harming behaviours (2006). For this reason, knowing the triggering factors that could potentially lead to suicide is imperative.

The experiment that was conducted was assess whether ethnicity is associated with suicide attempts across particular groups. A cross-sectional study was used to obtain the information on suicide attempt and suicidal completion. Interview was conducted to all participants to collect ethnicity and the structured interview for DSM-IV was used for the diagnosis of our patient. Patients were categorized in two groups: attempters if they attempt at least once during their life and non-attempters if they never attempt suicide during their life. At least ten different cohorts such as age, gender, diagnosis, duration of illness and a history of alcohol or substance abuse were used. Also the patients were separated by bipolar and schizophrenia disorders.

There is a significant relationship between childhood physical and sexual abuse and suicidal ideation. Suicide ideators are individuals who have plans and wishes to commit suicide, but have not yet made any recent attempts. Since suicide ideation precedes suicide attempt, it is important to focus on the intensity, pervasiveness and characteristics of the ideation in order to assess suicidal intention and to predict future suicidal risk (article). The Scale for Suicidal Ideation is a 19-item scale that will be used to quantify the intensity of current suicidal intent by scaling various dimensions of self-destructive thoughts (Beck & Kovacs, 1979).

The suicidal mode is a cognitive-behavioral model of suicidality that elaborates on Beck’s theory of psychopathology. The suicidal mode model is intended to not only have a theoretical framework but also have clinical application. Although there are many different theories that look at suicidality, they have the difficulty of having limited clinical relevance. Previous theories have presented variables that are linked with

Deliberate self-harm is a term that covers a wide range of behaviours some of which are directly related to suicide and some are not. This is a relatively common behaviour that is little understood. This essay provides an overview of the nature and extent of those most at risk of self-harm, including causes and risk factors. Examining some of the stereotyping that surrounds self -harm, and looking at ways in which self-harm can be prevented.

While there are many theories of why people commit suicide, the theoretical framework I will attempt to use to shape this research is The Interpersonal Theory of Suicide. Joiner did mention that many theories were lacking a key component, but he did not totally dismiss these theories he added them to the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide. The Interpersonal Theory of suicide states “one could feel a perceived burdensomeness combined with failed belongingness constitutes to psychache” (Joiner, 2005, pg. 37). However, Joiner (2005) adds that psychache and social integration can produce suicide ideation, but alone is not enough to explain the difference of why some people live with the pain and others commit suicide. Joiner (2005) states the

This essay will argue that the effectiveness of Durkheim’s method compared with recent studies is not effective to study suicide, as there are some limitations for applying Durkheim’s concept to investigate suicide behaviors. For example, Durkheim’s method is lack of supporting evidences from individual studies such as high rate suicides of the homeless or attempted suicides from women. Therefore, comparing to recent studies, it should be reformed by combing individual studies and group studies to get the full scope

Suicide is a major problem worldwide; especially for teenagers. Self image plays a big roll in American society today, especially in enabling someone to make a wrong and destructive decision like suicide. Self image and low esteem effect the chances of a teenagers suicide greatly. There are many events that lead up to a young persons suicide, for instance a little problem that seems inescapable which manifests themselves into overwhelming burdens. Detection and prevention are both key for adults and young people to stop suicide from happening.

Many people at one point in their life have experienced the feeling of hopelessness. Hopelessness is described as a feeling of despair. Most people experience despair after a death, trauma, or being separated from a person or thing. Out in the world today, there are so many outlooks and strategies that are willing to help with this feeling of hopelessness. Outlooks such as people or even making plans and setting goals. Setting small goals and accomplishing them are a great way to boost self-esteem and prevent or reduce hopelessness. Hopelessness can lead to issues such as depression, low self-esteem, and suicide. These people may be able to use the bible to help them to cope with hopelessness. For example, Isiah 40-55 is a great explanation on how to restore hope.

Moreover, the associated stressors that leads to suicide and suicide ideation and intervention in tackling suicide rates. Statistical data and demographic information were obtained from World Health Organization, World Bank and any published articles or journals that related to the topic.