Conocimiento cultural del suicidioanálisis comunicacional de adultos jóvenes con y sin intento de suicidio, del área metropolitana de Guadalajara, Jalisco, México

Resumen

This study has the objective to identify the cultural knowledge and the cultural meanings of suicide from the analysis of communicative expressions, as well as the suicide attempt of the young adult population in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico form the communication point of view and a communicational perspective with a psycho-cultural and constructionist focus. For this communicational and a psycho-cultural study, three methodological methods were used. Through a qualitative approach it was searched to know the meaning of the suicide and the suicide attempt through the application to different participants of semi structured interviews. To identify the semantic structure and the cultural knowledge of suicide and suicide attempt the Cultural Consensus Model was used. By the means of having information about the familiar environment of the participants, an evaluation scale was applied to measure their inter familiar relations, which evaluate the kind of communication stablished in the family towards conflict, unity, feelings expression and ideas in three different dimensions. These methodological tools have allowed us to identify actions, interactions and circumstances of the participants’ life, which generate the meaning of the suicide and suicide attempt, their cultural knowledge about themselves and some other psycho cultural factors of suicide risk. The communication is the main point of analysis of suicide’s and suicide attempt’s meanings and cultural knowledge, as it can be observed through the development of this study.