Decrepitude and death-hastening: the nature of old age in third world societies

In societies where there is differentiation among the "old age category," there will be a presence of death-hastening behavior (53).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Comparison of percentages	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Death-hastening Behavior	Dependent	Status And Treatment Of The Aged
Differentiation Among "old Age Category"	Independent	Senescence

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Glascock, Anthony P.	1982	The presence of old age distinctions and death-hastening behavior will be associated with less complex societies. The presence of supportive treatment of the aged wil be associated with more complex societies (54).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Glascock, Anthony P.	1982	The presence of old age distinctions and death-hastening behavior will be associated with periods of deprivation (55).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Glascock, Anthony P.	1982	Differentiation among the "old age category" will be found among non-industrial societies (48).	Supported	1	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Glascock, Anthony P.	1980	"The majority of societies in the ethnographic record have explicit ways of defining the category 'old age'" (315).	Supported	1	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Binford, Lewis R.	1971	"Distinctions in mortuary ritual . . . [vary with] expected criteria employed for status differentiation among societies arranged on a scale from simple to complex" (18, 19)	Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author