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Suicide in America: a test of Durkheim's theory of religious and family integration, 1933-1980.
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Support is found for Durkheim's thesis that Catholics have lower suicide rates than non-Catholics and strong Catholic/non-Catholic suicide differences are found even when the analysis is extended to 414 counties in 1970 and 1980.Abstract:
With a set of relevant controls, including population change, income, urbanity, unemployment, and female labor-force participaion, Durkheim's religious and family integration hypotheses are tested with new and highly reliable church membership rates and similar divorce rates. Eight data sets are analyzed at two levels of analysis, state and county: 50 states at six different times betwen 1933 and 1980 and 216 counties in 1970 and 1980. The religous and family integration variables are generally supported at both levels of analysis and across the 47 years of the study. Contrary to previous studies, support is found for Durkheim's thesis that Catholics have lower suicide rates than non-Catholics. Strong Catholic/non-Catholic suicide differences are found even when the analysis is extended to 414 counties in 1970 and 1980.read more
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The Interpersonal Theory of Suicide
Kimberly A. Van Orden,Tracy K. Witte,Kelly C. Cukrowicz,Scott R. Braithwaite,Edward A. Selby,Thomas E. Joiner +5 more
TL;DR: The theory is proposed that the most dangerous form of suicidal desire is caused by the simultaneous presence of two interpersonal constructs-thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness (and hopelessness about these states)-and further that the capability to engage in suicidal behavior is separate from the desire to engageIn suicidal behavior.
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Religious involvement and subjective well-being.
TL;DR: There are persistent denominational variations in life satisfaction, but not in happiness: nondenominational Protestants, liberal Protestants, and members of nontraditional groups such as Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses report greater life satisfaction than do their unaffiliated counterparts, even with the effects of other dimensions of religiosity held constant.
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Marital status and suicide in the National Longitudinal Mortality Study
TL;DR: Marital status, especially divorce, has strong net effect on mortality from suicide, but only among men, while among women, there were no statistically significant differentials in the risk of suicide by marital status categories.
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Durkheim, suicide, and religion: toward a network theory of suicide.
TL;DR: This paper redirects debates over the religion-suicide link away from specific empirical quarrels to a consideration of Durkheim's general proposition regarding religion's protective power, and argues that his proposition must be tailored to social and historical contexts and that research must specify the underlying social mechanism at work.
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Religious affiliation and suicide attempt.
Kanita Dervic,Maria A. Oquendo,Michael F. Grunebaum,Steve Ellis,Ainsley K. Burke,J. John Mann +5 more
TL;DR: Religious affiliation is associated with less suicidal behavior in depressed inpatients and greater moral objections to suicide and lower aggression level in religiously affiliated subjects may function as protective factors against suicide attempts.
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.
TL;DR: In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity as discussed by the authors, and investigated what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion - totemism among the Aborigines of Australia.
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Suicide: A Study in Sociology
TL;DR: The suicide is one of the least understandable of human behaviours as discussed by the authors, and suicide makes an immense contribution to our understanding to what must surely be the most understandable of acts in human life.
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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
TL;DR: In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity as discussed by the authors, and investigated what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion - totemism among the Aborigines of Australia.
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An Economic Theory of Suicide
Daniel S. Hamermesh,Neal M. Soss +1 more
TL;DR: This article derived an economic theory of suicide and test its implications using: (1) data by age in many developed countries; (2) a time series, 1947-67, by age group in the United States; (3) a cross section by state and age groups in 1960.