The Influencing Factors and the Internal Logic of Officials' Suicide Behaviors—Based on Social Mutual-Construction Theory

Abstract

Under the background of social transition in China, this paper takes the Social Mutual-constitution Theory as its analysis framework, follows the specific analysis route, “social transition—government reform—officials’ pressure bearing—suicide behaviors”, and constructs the mechanism and the logical relationship of officials’ suicide behaviors, which is to help us reproduce and analyse the internal logic of officials’ suicide behaviors. It shows that the suicide behaviors are owed to the macro society and the meso organization which force the micro officials’ personality structure. So the main reason why the officials commit suicide is the reverse mutual-construction relationship among society, government and officials.