Resource Tag: DIVORCE

30 adults who experienced parental death in adolescence, 30 who experienced parental divorce & 60 who experienced neither (potential support providers) rated the relative helpfulness of support-intended communications & the helpfulness of support network members. Few differences were found between death & divorce survivor groups or between survivors & potential supporters. Nonsignificant results are discussed […]

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Epidemiological reports often contend that the physician suicide rate is no higher than that of white males in America. The low risk of divorce among physicians has been neglected as a possible suppressor effect in this work. This paper addresses this question using data from 143,885 deaths. The results indicate that when controls are introduced […]

Time-series regressions corrected for serial autocorrelation were used to explore whether time-series correlates of the French suicide rate were dependent upon the use of crude versus age-adjusted rates for the period 1950-85. For males, divorce, marriage & birth rates all contributed significantly to the prediction of the crude & age-adjusted suicide rate. For females, only […]

The researchers studied any relation between adolescents’ views on divorced families and teen suicide by having 120 high school students read a version of a newspaper article which vaired with victim’s method of death & marital status of victim’s parents. Suicide victims were viewed as more psychologically disturbed. Divorced parents were viewed as like likeable. […]

This article explores the idea that although much can be learned by viewing Sylvia Plath’s poetry as an expression of her thinking & affect, additional insights are afforded by reversing the typical direction of effect & by viewing Plath’s affect, & in particular her depression, as a result of her writing. This perspective is tied […]

An ecological study of suicidal ideation in the states of America in the 1980s revealed that suicidal ideation in the past years was more common in states where an index of social disintegration was higher and where an index of Roman Catholicism was lower. This study suggests that sociological studies of nonfatal suicidal behaviours may […]

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Time series data on per capita alcohol consumption & age-specific suicide mortality in 1959-91 were scrutinized. Results: the suicide rate of Finnish men in age groups 15-34 years & 34-49 years is associated with per capita alcohol consumption; no connection could be established between the suicide rates of men 50+ years & either per capita […]

Letter to the editor about suicide, alcohol & divorce & a response to the statements in the letter.

Previous work on country music & suicide has neglected individual-level data analysis of country music fans’ suicide risk, use of an average annual country music exposure index, an analysis of indirect effects, & an assessment of interaction effects. The present article addresses these issues. Country music fans are found to be at significantly higher risk […]

This book is about the kinds of losses that people may experience: job change or relocation, divorce, & death. Information is provided on topics such as the difference between normal & distorted grief responses & how to care for your physical well-being when grieving. The book includes stories of bereaved people’s responses to loss. Exercises […]

This article is on Freddie Prinze, a comedian, who committed suicide at age 22. Prinze became very successful very quickly but he had many personal problems including drug & alcohol abuse, an impending divorce & separation from his 10-month-old son.

The relationship between states’ spending for public welfare & their suicide rates over a 30-year period, from 1960, 1970, 1980, 1985 & 1990, was analyzed. In 1985 & 1990, the 2 variables that were important for interstate differences in suicide rates were spending for public welfare & ethnicity. In 1990, not only were suicide rates […]

American research on the effect of divorce on suicide is compared to Japanese data. Japan has a low divorce rate, high extended family integration, cultural conformism & low couple centeredness. Suicide-related variables such as unemployment, religiosity & postwar anomie are examined as controls. A time series analysis does not substantiate the divorce-suicide pattern for Japan […]

Using data from the 1970s, it was observed that the gross national product per capita was positively associated with male suicide rates in the Caribbean islands, with sociological variables playing a smaller role. In contrast, sociological variables played the more important role in the associations with female suicide rates. (7 refs.)

Stack & Grundlach (1992) tested & supported the hypothesis that the greater the air time devoted to country music in metropolitan areas, the greater the white suicide rate will be. The present authors could not replicate this effect in a 1994 study. This article describes Snipes & Maguire’s re-attempt to replicate the original results using […]

The association between suicide rates, the divorce rate, the marriage rate & the percentage of illegitimate births in England & Wales from 1901-1975 was examined. Neither marriage nor divorce rates were significantly predictive of suicide rates. Time-series regression did not indicate significant effects from domestic integration on suicide rates in England & Wales for the […]

To see if underreporting in the suicide rate might lead to erroneous conclusions, 2 upwardly-adjusted suicide rates were computed using Canadian provincial data from 1971 & 1978; one contained all identified suicides & all deaths of undetermined origin; the other contained these plus accidental poisonings & selected motor vehicle fatalities. No findings are substantively altered […]

This study replicates the analysis of Stack (1980) on the relationship between state variation in divorce & the suicide rate. Using Canadian data, it is hypothesized that a higher provincial rate of divorce is related to a higher provincial suicide rate. Using provincial data for 1971 & 1978, support was found for the hypothesis. Controlling […]

This study examined social & economic variables that may be associated with differing rates of suicide & homicide in Canada & the USA. Results indicatd that divorce rates contributed to the prediction of suicide & homicide rates in both nations. Marriage rates showed an anomaly in the comparisons. Unemployment added no predictive power to both […]

Witnessed suicides account for a small percentage of all suicides but offer a unique view into self-destructive behaviour. An epidemiological and forensic description of 50 witnessed suicides drawn from a 15-year series of over 1,000 cases is presented. A taxonomy is developed based on the role played by the witness & related to previous work […]

Based on Durkheim’s theory of social integration as a key issue in egoistic suicide, this study analyzed 2 aspects of social disintegrative factors on the male & female suicide rates in Norway; namely alcohol consumption & divorce. Times series analyses on differenced data from 1911-90 showed that both factors were independently & statistically associated with […]