Suicide from unrequited love as a socio-psychological problem
Socio-psychological aspect of suicide from unrequited love is examined in the article. Those who experience deep psychological feelings from a lack of reciprocity in love relations constitute the “group of suicidal risk”. This is confirmed by the history of development of human’s civilization and by present-day social realities. Besides, this problem is acknowledged by international organizations specializing in the field of suicide and measures to deal with it. That is why the goals of the given research are to form notion about “unrequited” love as a determinant of suicide behavior, to examine peculiarities of this behavior that are determined by socio-psychological feelings and problems of love relations and to develop proposals on the prevention of this negative social phenomenon. Generalized socio-psychological portrait of persons suffering from unrequited love is presented. This is mainly a female under 25 with low level of education from the whole family. They are characterized by impressionability, maximalism, emotional instability, sentimentality, expressivity, lack of critical thinking and communicative and self-control abilities, unformed of limiting imperatives behavior and survival instinct. They are characterizes by such character accentuations as affective- ecstatic, demonstrative, rigid, excitable, labile, hysterical, sensitive and unstable. By temperament they are mainly sanguine and melancholic persons. Patterns of their suicidal behavior are expressed in premeditated falling from high buildings, hanging, poisoning, wrists slitting and falling under vehicles at day or night time, in spring or autumn, usually not in public. Hinting behavior usually precedes suicide. Main reasons for suicide from unrequited love are presented, preventive measures are proposed.