Constructing an Underlying Model for the Experience of Reaching Suicide among Suicidal Women in Kermanshah

In recent decades, suicide rate has significantly increased in the world as well as in Iran. The suicide rate in Iran is lower than the global average; however, in some provinces, including Kermanshah, the rate is very high, particularly among women. This study aims to construct a model for the process of reaching the experience of suicide for the semantic system of women in Kermanshah. This study was conducted based on a qualitative approach as well as underlying theory method. Field information was obtained through in-depth interviews with 14 suicidal women. According to the research results, reaching the experience of suicide in the lives of these women is a reciprocal and significant experience. Moreover, this experience is formed in the process of formation during the stages of acquaintance, internalization of the idea of suicide and taking action for suicide. Hence, the accumulation of unfulfilled desires, feelings of deprivation and frustration, failure to accomplish identity, failure in interaction with others, and feelings of narrow living are recognized as the most important reasons for suicide. Gender and honor-related issues and the role of moderators are the most significant intervening conditions in the experience of suicide. In fact, the purgatory region, with its complexity and ambiguity, provides the grounds for shaping the experience of suicide; hence, women in the process of this experience respond to it by applying strategies such as dramatic actions, endowment actions, and protest actions.