According to a survey by Michiko Ueda, Associate Professor of Waseda University School of Political Science and Economics, and Tetsuya Matsubayashi, Associate Professor of Osaka University Graduate School of International Public Policy, suicides of middle-aged and older men are concentrated on Monday morning.When the Japanese economy falls into a recession, the number of cases of suicide during the morning commuting time is increasing, and the research group thinks that it is necessary to improve the consultation system and watch over the time when suicide is likely to occur.
According to Waseda University, the research group extracted and analyzed the time of death from the data of about 1974 people who committed suicide between 2014 and 90.As a result, it was found that there are times and times when the risk of suicide increases depending on gender and age, such as the concentration of suicides of men aged 40 to 65 on Monday morning.
Middle-aged and older men commit suicide on Mondays 1.55 times more often than Saturdays, and commit suicide before work from 4am to 8am 8 times more often than late at night from 0pm to midnight. Was there.
This tendency has been particularly noticeable since 1995, when the Japanese economy suffered from a long-term recession after the burst of the bubble economy. Before 20, young men aged 39 to 1994 did not tend to commit suicide before going to work, but since 1995, suicide during the morning commute has increased.
Many telephone services aimed at preventing suicide, such as "Telephone for Life," accept consultations from evening to midnight.The research group says it is necessary to set up a support system in the early morning hours rather than at night.
Paper information:[Journal of Affective Disorders] Diurnal variation in suicide timing by age and gender: Evidence from Japan across 41 years
