Cross-cultural study of the thwarting disorientation theory of suicide

Krauss, Herbert H.; Krauss, Beatrice J.

Cross-cultural study of the thwarting disorientation theory of suicide

Journal of Abnormal Psychology • Vol/Iss. 73 • Published In 1968 • Pages: 353-357 •

By Krauss, Herbert H., Krauss, Beatrice J.

Hypothesis

"The . . . correlation of thwarting disorientation situations and TD suicide [should] exceed [that between] thwarting disorientation situations and non TD suicide cases" (356)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
t-test	Supported	p<.01	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Thwarting Disorientation Situations	Independent	`NONE`
Thwarting Disorientation Suicides	Dependent	Suicide

Related Hypotheses

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Krauss, Herbert H.	1966	"The number of suicide cases . . . should be directly related to the number of TD [thwarting disorientation] situations scored present [in a] cultunit" (44)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Krauss, Herbert H.	1966	"The number of suicide cases reported to be caused by extrapersonal frustration [EF] should be related to the number of TD [thwarting disorientation] situations in a cultunit, but this relationship should be weaker than the relationship between number of suicides . . . scored IF [interpersonal frustration] and number of TD [thwarting disorientation] situations scored present" (45)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Krauss, Herbert H.	1966	"Interpersonal frustration [IF] was posited to be associated with suicide and TD [thwarting disorientation] situations were conceived of as potentially leading to IF [interpersonal frustration]" (45)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Naroll, Raoul	1963	"Thwarting disorientation situations, in which a victim blames a person for the victim's loss of social ties, tend to cause suicide" (1)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Naroll, Raoul	1969	"Thwarting disorientation situations tend to cause suicide. . . . [There are] correlations between . . . thwarting disorientation traits and suicide source wordage" (139)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author

Cross-cultural study of the thwarting disorientation theory of suicide

Journal of Abnormal Psychology • Vol/Iss. 73 • Published In 1968 • Pages: 353-357 • Cite

By Krauss, Herbert H., Krauss, Beatrice J.

Hypothesis

Test

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Related Hypotheses

Journal of Abnormal Psychology • Vol/Iss. 73 • Published In 1968 • Pages: 353-357 •