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의학전문대학원생의 죽음에 대한 태도와 공감능력이 자살충동억제의지에 미치는 영향

이수현1, 최은혜라2, 김성수3,*
Su Hyun LEE1, Eun Hye Ra CHOI2, Sung Soo KIM3,*
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1부산대학교 대학원 의학과 인문사회의학전공 박사과정
2부산대학교 대학원 의학과 인문사회의학전공 석사과정
3부산대학교 의학전문대학원 인문사회의학교실
1Department of Social Studies of Medicine, Pusan National University Graduate School, PhD Candidate
2Department of Social Studies of Medicine, Pusan National University Graduate School, MS Candidate
3Department of Social Studies of Medicine, Pusan National University School of Medicine
*교신저자: 김성수. 부산대학교 의학전문대학원 인문사회의학교실. 051-510-8036. tigerkss@pnu.edu

ⓒ Copyright 2012 The Korean Society for Medical Ethics. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Received: Jul 17, 2012; Accepted: Aug 23, 2012

Published Online: Aug 31, 2012

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the study was 1) to examine the relationship between medical students’ attitudes toward death and their suicidal impulse control and 2) to investigate the effects of empathy on death attitudes and suicidal impulse control. A questionnaire was developed consisting of six death-attitude factors, a suicidal impulse control item, and two empathy related items. The questionnaire was administrated to medical students at one university in Pusan, South Korea. One hundred and six completed questionnaires were analyzed. The results show that the more often respondents think about death and consider death as liberation, the lower their ability is to control suicidal impulses. Respondents who avoided thinking about death or who thought the impact of their death on their family members would be high were more likely to have a higher level of control of suicidal impulses. The impact of their own death on family members was most strongly correlated with an attitude toward death as a natural part of life. Regarding the effects of empathy on suicidal impulse control, cognitive empathy had a stronger correlation with suicidal impulse control than affective empathy. The results of regression show that cognitive empathy has the strongest effect on suicidal impulse control compared to other significant factors. The results of this study imply that the causes of suicide are not limited to the conventional psychological factors, such as depression. Understanding attitudes toward death and empathy could enhance society’s continuing efforts to reduce suicide among college students generally and medical students in particular.

Keywords: 죽음에 대한 태도; 공감능력; 자살충동억제의지
Keywords: attitudes toward death; empathy; suicidal impulse control


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