Although the number of suicides this year, after a wave of growth in recent years, slowed down – still see huge disparities by gender: men nearly seven times more likely to commit suicide than women . These proportions against Union are exceptionally high. At 3.1 thousand. men who took their own lives over a similar step decided to 511 women.
– At first glance, such a distribution regions with a high rate of suicide is shocking. Speaking about civilized regions Polish – said prof. Aleksander Araszkiewicz, a former consultant in the field of psychiatry. However, according to prof. Janusz Czapiński, the author of the Social Diagnosis, the territorial division is not surprising. As he explains, the province in which residents most often take their own lives, are areas of the immigrant population from the East. – Residents are weakly rooted in a traditional environment. By resettlement has been broken social ties, and these are very important – explained . – If people live in the same place for ages, social control and motivation to live for more – summarizes prof. Czapiński.
Interestingly, this pattern also coincides with the religiosity of the region. With the Social Diagnosis it shows that most zateizowanym province is the Warmia-Mazury, in third place is the West, just after the Lubuskie and Lower Silesia. These are the places where people least likely went to church . According to Prof.. Czapiński these two elements (lack of rootedness and low religiosity) give effect in the form high number of suicides . At the other extreme is the eastern wall – Carpathian and Lesser Poland , in which there are very few attempts on his own life. Regions – which confirms the diagnosis – which are among the most respectful of tradition.
Margaret Krzysztoszek, an economist with Leviathan, draws attention to another element: emigration. Lower Silesia is a region from which many people leaving. The share of this region in the total number of Poles are 7.6 per cent., And in the expatriate population – 11.1 percent. It is also one of the elements that lead to the breakdown of social ties.
This testifies to the fact that he was not the economic situation, ie unemployment or height earnings, have a major impact on the desire to live – says Krzysztoszek. Greater eg. Not a poor regions: average earnings are among the highest in the country. The impact of such behavior are mainly relations between people.
– What is unique in the world, is the change that has taken place in recent years in Poland in terms of who commits suicide – says prof. Maria Jarosz of the Institute of Political Studies. According to dominate Men . in Poland that this disparity is among the highest in Europe. Higher only in Cyprus, where – according to Eurostat data – in fact women do not take their own lives.
Prof. Czapiński also emphasizes the social role played by a woman. It’s a parental role.
– Among the suicide bombers are rarely female who are mothers – confirms prof. Jarosz. Prof. Aleksander Araszkiewicz adds that the differences between men and women are reflected also in determining how to take his own life. This confirms the social intuitions: men do not hesitate to choose the drastic measures (hanging, throwing himself under a train or firearm), women choose an overdose of drugs or gas.
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