Effects of societal integration, period, region, and culture of suicide on male age-specific suicide rates: 20 developed countries, 1955-1989

Article Abstract:

The authors use a model to examine the multiple indicators for suicide among men in developed nations, including the role played the culture of suicide. Topics include age and period effects on the male suicide and the sociopolitical context of suicide.

Statistics

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The relative gender gap in suicide: societal integration, the culture of suicide, and period effects in twenty developed countries, 1955-1994

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This article examines social factors involved in the gender differences in suicide rates in industrialized nations. Findings indicate that levels of social integration and the prevalence of suicide in national cultures explain the gender gap and variation in suicide rates in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Industrialized Countries, Statistical Data Included, Analysis, Demographic aspects, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Social science research, Culture, Sex differences (Psychology), Sociologists, Social integration, Durkheim, Emile

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Societal integration and age-standardized suicide rates in 21 developed countries, 1955-1989

Article Abstract:

Suicide rates in 21 developed nations from 1955 to 1989 were influenced mostly by a sociological concept called culture of suicide. This concept argues that societies differ in the extent to which they condone or condemn suicide. In a society where a culture of suicide exists, suicide rates are higher. It follows that among a group of people who condemn the act of suicide, suicide rates are lower. It has also been found out that educational integration reduces female suicide rates, while educational integration does not have an effect on male suicide rates.

Suicide victims

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