2. External Factors
Lester argued that culture influences the behavior of nationalities, ethnic groups and subgroups within a nation. The interaction can be explored for the aggregate suicide rate of a culture and also for the individual suicide living in a particular society or culture (Lester, 2008).
Therefore, there are two major external factors discussed in this section. Suicidal tendency factor also can be seen from the national graphic of suicide as culture of a country can influences the behavior of nationalities, ethnic groups and subgroups within a nation. Then, the data of Slovenia Historical Suicide Statistic Rate are considered to analyze Veronika’s external factor on her suicidal tendency. The other external factors of Veronika’s suicidal tendency are seen from the
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It means that the setting time of this story takes place when Slovenia was on the early stage in rebuilding the country. Political and economic conditions was still unstable and all of this conditions affected the mental health in this country.
Taking an overview from the World Health Organization statistics, it is reported that almost 100,000 people committed suicide in 1998. In line with this data, it can be stated that committing suicidal are commonly happened in this country. Veronika’s suicidal attempt also happened on this period of time. Then it can be conclude that Veronika’s story were contextual toward the condition happened in that time. Therefore, the huge number of suicidal case and the national mental health conditions can be categorized as the factors that affected Veronika’s ideations on her suicidal attempt.
If the suicidal frequencies of women in in the years close to 2000, for suicide methods in European countries compared, the statistical data shows that most of the women suicidal attempt in Slovenia tend to poison their self by pesticide. The data would be as follow, with SLO as the national code for