Unikkaartuit: Meanings of Well-Being, Unhappiness, Health, and Community Change Among Inuit in Nunavut, Canada

• Published in: American journal of community psychology Vol. 48; no. 3-4; pp. 426 - 438
• Main Authors: Kral, Michael J., Idlout, Lori, Minore, J. Bruce, Dyck, Ronald J., Kirmayer, Laurence J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01.12.2011; Blackwell Science Ltd
• Subjects: Adaptation, Psychological; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Canada; Clinical Psychology; College Students; Communication; Community action; Community and Environmental Psychology; Community Change; Community-Based Participatory Research; Eskimos; Female; Happiness; Health Psychology; Humans; Intergenerational Relations - ethnology; Inuit; Inuits - psychology; Life Style - ethnology; Male; Middle Aged; Narration; Nunavut; Original Paper; Personality and Social Psychology; Psychological Distress; Psychology; Public Health; Qualitative research; Segregation; Social Change; Suicide; Suicide - ethnology; Suicide - prevention & control; Suicides & suicide attempts; Well Being; Nunavut; Canada; Nunavut Territory Canada; Happiness; Inuit; Well-being; Community change

Suicide among young Inuit in the Canadian Arctic is at an epidemic level. In order to understand the distress and well-being experienced in Inuit communities, a first step in understanding collective suicide, this qualitative study was designed. Fifty Inuit were interviewed in two Inuit communities...