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Suicide by Industry and Occupation: A Structural‐Change Approach
Author(s) -
Reinhart George R.,
Linden Leonard L.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1982.tb01091.x
Subject(s) - psychology , suicide rates , suicide prevention , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , demography , social psychology , medical emergency , medicine , sociology
Data on suicide rates for males age 20 to 64 by occupation and industry for 1950 are examined. Two hypotheses are tested: The first, a static hypothesis relating variations in suicide with the size of the group from which choice of significant others is made, was not supported. The second, in which variations in suicide are related to changes in the size of the group from which significant others are selected, is supported. The authors conclude that their structural change approach to suicide is compatible with both sociological and psychological approaches to suicide.