Doctoral Dissertation Research: Suicide Survival Narratives: How Social Statuses Affect Survivors' Cultural Narratives about Suicide Experiences

博士论文研究：自杀生存叙事：社会地位如何影响幸存者关于自杀经历的文化叙事

• 批准号: 2001557
• 负责人: Mark Pachucki
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-15 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2001557&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Suicide; Survival

While a great deal of research has documented sociodemographic trends in suicide risk, a more fundamental question about how people experience suicide and how they frame those experiences across their identities remains unanswered. This project will examine how suicide survivors construct cultural narratives to make meaning of their suicide experiences in order to inform suicide prevention strategies, clinical approaches to working with suicidal populations, and post-suicide social supports. We know that variation in social statuses, such as social class, gender and race, are related to increases in suicide risk. This project will analyze such variations in survivors’ cultural narratives. The identification of social mechanisms underlying suicidality will help policy makers: 1) create and refine suicide prevention by understanding the unique circumstances that precede survivors’ suicide experiences; 2) design policy to help those who have suicidal experiences transition back to life and society by identifying their unique circumstances and needs following suicide experiences; and 3) refine clinicians’ approaches to suicidal populations by explaining variation within the suicidal population across social identities. If, as evidence suggests, suicide survivors’ experiences and cultural narratives vary across social positions then these findings will have the potential to contribute to tailored suicide prevention policy and post-suicide programming, which could both save lives from suicide and improve survivors’ quality of life post-suicide experience. Understanding how people experience surviving suicide is critical to enhance suicide prevention efforts as well as to proving support to suicide survivors. Using in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 120 suicide survivors, this project will examine how individuals’ social identities—and the salience of those identities—affect how they make sense of their suicide experiences and how these framings relate to their transitions back to life after periods of suicidal ideation or suicide attempt(s). Interview data will be analyzed using a grounded theory approach with Max QDA, a software program that allows for sorting, coding, and organizing narrative interview data. Given the paucity of qualitative work on suicide, this project is both methodologically and theoretically novel. The qualitative approach will advance contemporary sociological theory about suicide and provide information about the social mechanisms through which social categories relate to suicide experiences. More broadly the project contributes to sociological theories related to health disparities that vary by social status.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

尽管大量的研究记录了自杀风险的社会人口统计学趋势，但关于人们如何体验自杀以及如何在其身份中构造这些经历的更根本的问题仍然没有得到答复。该项目将研究自杀生存方式如何构建文化叙事以赋予其自杀经历的意义，以便为预防自杀策略，自杀人群的临床方法和自杀后的社会支持提供依据。我们知道，社会地位的差异，例如社会阶层，性别和种族，与自杀风险的增加有关。该项目将分析生存文化叙事中的这种差异。识别自杀潜在的社会机制将有助于政策制定者：1）通过了解生存自杀经历之前的独特情况来创建和完善自杀预防； 2）设计政策，以帮助那些自杀经历过渡到生活和社会的人，以确定自杀经验的独特情况和需求； 3）通过解释社会身份的自杀人口中的差异来完善临床医生对自杀人群的方法。如证据所表明的那样，自杀生存的经验和文化叙事在各个社会地位各不相同，那么这些发现将有可能为定制的自杀预防政策和自杀后的节目做出贡献，这既可以从自杀中挽救自杀的生命，又可以改善生存后的生活质量。了解人们如何体验生存自杀对于增强自杀预防工作以及为自杀生存提供支持至关重要。该项目使用120种自杀生存的深入，半结构化的访谈，将研究个人的社会身份以及这些身份的显着性，伴随着他们如何理解自己的自杀经历，以及这些框架如何与自杀式或自杀未遂后的过渡回到生活中的过渡相关联（S）。访谈数据将使用与Max QDA的接地理论方法进行分析，Max QDA是一个软件程序，允许对叙事访谈数据进行分类，编码和组织叙事访谈数据。考虑到自杀的定性工作很少，该项目在理论上和理论上都是新颖的。定性方法将推进有关自杀的当代社会学理论，并提供有关社会类别与自杀经验相关的社会机制的信息。更广泛地，该项目有助于与社会地位不同的健康分布相关的社会学理论。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估被认为是宝贵的支持。