Resource Tag: SOCIAL INTEGRATION

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In this presentation, a study investigating the relationship between suicide rates & social environments in various parts of Helsinki in 1970-1971 was discussed. Results supported the hypotheses that the suicide rate is inversely related to the degree of integration of the community & that integrative changes tend to decrease & disintegrative changes to increase suicides.

Some of countries studied include France, the United Kingdom, colonial Natal, Peru, Russia, the United States, Japan, & Australia.

Epidemiological data on suicide & attempted suicide in Mannheim was discussed in this presentation. Ecological data for a 13-year period, 1966-1978, was analyzed. The strength & direction of correlations between attempted suicide rates & ecological properties of social disintegration varied with the level of the ecological unit. When streets & small neighbourhoods were studied, a […]

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This study hypothesized that: hope would negatively predict burdensomeness, thwarted belongingness, & acquired capability to enact lethal injury; hope would negatively predict suicide ideation; & interpersonal suicide risk factors would predict suicide ideation. Results indicated hope negatively predicted burdensomeness & thwarted belongingness, but positively predicted acquired capability to enact suicide. Contrary to the second hypothesis, […]

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The first goal of this study was to link empirical measures of 3 theoretical explanations of marital status differences to the variation in male & female standardized suicide difference coefficients in 12 developed countries, circa 1960. Predictors of Durkheim’s social integration hypothesis, Gibbs & Martin’s concepts of marital status integration, & norms on suicide acceptability […]

The authors examined whether the severity of borderline personality disorder, as measured by the number of criteria present, is associated with comorbidity of Axis I & Axis II diagnoses, as well as demographic factors & psychosocial functioning. 2300 psychiatric outpatients were interviewed. Approximately 10% of the patients were diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. There were […]

This study tests the association of neighbourhood-level volunteerism with mortality. A cohort study of 1996 New Zealand census respondents aged 25-74 years was conducted using multilevel Poisson regression analyses. Neighbourhood measures included indices of social capital & deprivation. Adjusting for just age & marital status, the mortality rate ratios for people living in the quintile […]

This study examined correlates of suicide ideation in a population based sample of patients with cancer. Data from the sixth National Mortality Followback Survey were analyzed for 980 individuals. Multiple logistic regression analyses included sociodemographic, health-related factors, & social support variables. Prevalence of suicide ideation was 17.7%. Suicidality was significantly more likely in patients who […]

This article examines how suicides influence suicide risks of others within 2 interaction domains: the family & the workplace. A distinction is made between dyad-based social-interaction effects & degree-based exposure effects. A unique database including all individuals who ever lived in Stockholm during the 1990s is analysed. For about 5.6 years on average, 1.2 million […]

This study tests 3 competing hypotheses for explaining lethal violence that is conceptualized as the combination of suicide & homicide. The hypotheses differ on how lethal violence can be expressed as suicide or homicide. Suicide & homicide data from 1989-1991 were obtained from the Multiple Cause of Death Study. A bivariate analysis shows there is […]

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Using data from 49 developing & developed countries for the period around 1995, elderly suicide rates & the elderly/non-elderly suicide ratio are examined. Results show the direction of socio-economic change impacts differentially on elderly suicide rates, the rates in regressing economies being appreciably higher than in progressing economies. However, the impact of socio-economic trends on […]

Countries included in this study are Australia, Canada, Denmark, England/Wales, Finland, France, West Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, & the United States.