2021 Volume 24 Issue 1 Pages 32-40
Purpose: The causal structure in which each of the mothers’ and fathers’ attachment formation affects sense of coherence (SOC) and suicide risk was clarified.
Method: A self-completed questionnaire survey of 2,000 men and women 20 ~ 39 years of age living in a provincial city was conducted. The causal structure was analyzed using covariance structure analysis for ECR-RS of caregivers in SOC, K6, each of the mothers and the fathers, and the respective models and feelings of poor mental health.
Results: The causal model with K6, the ECR-RS of the mothers, feelings of poor mental health, and SOC as latent variables were as follows: GFI = 0.922, AGFI = 0.885, CFI = 0.943, RMSEA = 0.072. When the ECR-RS of fathers was applied, GFI0.928, AGFI0.893, CFI 0.944, RMSEA0.070, the coefficient of determination (R2) for both models was 0.75. In both cases, feelings of poor mental health as latent variables were followed by the structure that defines K6 via SOC and feelings of poor mental health, with ECR-RS as the foundation.
Discussion: Feelings of poor mental health were associated with suicide risk. Attachment formation from mothers and fathers was newly suggested to be one of the factors in “many unconscious motives” of suicide. Therefore, for the measures of suicide prevention in adulthood, community health care in collaboration with industrial health care for poor mental feeling, as well as support measures, are required to deepen the formation of attachments from mothers and fathers, especially around the age of 6 months to 5 years.
