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

Rates of suicide will be negatively associated with elaboration of ceremony and ritual (253, 261).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
tau-b	Not Supported	p<.03	.26	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Ceremony And Ritual	Independent	Ritual
Suicide	Dependent	Suicide

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Gouldner, Alvin W.	1962	Findings: Factor A, "Apollonianism or Norm-Sending", has high positive loadings (oblimax rotation) for: elaboration of ceremony and ritual, organized priesthood, authority vested in judges, power vested in chief, government by restricted council, and attractiveness of future life. Highest negative loadings are for marriage by capture and domesticated animals other than herded.	Supported	8	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Krauss, Herbert H.	1966	"Whether a suicide case was considered IF [interpersonal frustration] of EF [extrapersonal frustration] was . . . independent of case length" (80)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Hunter, Lance Y.	2024	Inflation will have a positive association with suicide rates.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bowden, Edgar	1969	"Index of Sociocultural Development scores do in fact correlate with elaborateness of certain aspects of the aesthetic and ritual elements of culture" (1114)	Supported	6	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