Document Type : Original Article
Researcher
Education
Ministerial Ethics Committee
Adolescence is one of the most critical periods of human development due to rapid physical, social, cultural and psychological changes (Ma, Han, Batterham, Collier, 2016).
Adolescence is defined as the stage of transition from childhood to adulthood, the period of preparation and acquisition of skills for adult life. Therefore, compared to other age groups, teenagers are different in physical, cognitive and emotional terms (Graber and Brooks, 1996).
Adolescents' inability to find a suitable solution for problems and problems and the lack of adaptive strategies to cope with stressful situations and factors, frequent family disputes and rejection or failure during this period have also been identified as factors influencing their tendency to commit suicide in the future. (Kaplan and Sadok, 2015; Martekh Rezaei, 2014).
According to the definition of the study center of the US National Institutes of Health, suicide is a person's conscious attempt to destroy himself and end his life, which may lead to a person committing suicide (Becker, Wernecki, Heldoy, and Liubeh, 2018).
The results of Curtin and Heron's research (2019) showed that suicide is the second cause of death among young people and students; So that about 1100 students commit suicide in America every year (Aria et al., 2009; Berman, 2009; Ma, Batterham, Clair, and Hahn, 2016)
Since the period of adolescence is very influential and important in the personal-social future of each person, therefore, examining the life of a suicidal person in this period can be very important in explaining this phenomenon.