Social integration and suicide: a test of durkheim's theory

Rates of suicide will be negatively associated with social integration (253, 260).

The relationship is significantly positive.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
tau-b	Not Supported	p<.01	.34	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Social Integration	Independent	Social Relationships And Groups
Suicide	Dependent	Suicide

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Masumura, Wilfred T.	1977	Rates of suicide will be negatively associated with organized priesthood (253, 262).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Masumura, Wilfred T.	1977	Rates of suicide will be negatively associated with elaboration of ceremony and ritual (253, 261).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Rootman, Irving	1973	Integration and regulation will be associated with a society's suicide rate (85, 93)	Partially supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Krauss, Herbert H.	1970	"Suicide frequency frequently varies as a function of social development. . . . Low frequency of suicide is most often associated with low societal development, high rates of suicide occur most frequently in cultunits with a medium degree of complexity" (159, 163)	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