The Impact of High School Students' Sense of Security and Emotional Growth Beliefs on Attitudes Toward Suicide

Objective: To explore the influence of contemporary high school students' sense of security and emotional growth beliefs on their attitudes toward suicide. This study employed literature review and questionnaire methods to survey 386 high school students. Results: (1) Overall, high school students hold ambivalent or neutral attitudes toward suicide; their interpersonal security is relatively high, while their sense of control is lower. (2) Demographic variables such as gender, single-parent family status, and left-behind experience signifcantly afect high school students' sense of security, emotional growth beliefs, and attitudes toward suicide. (3) There is a signifcant correlation between high school students' sense of security, emotional growth beliefs, and attitudes toward suicide. (4) Sense of security mediates the relationship between emotional growth beliefs and attitudes toward suicide.