Thwarting Disorientation Situations

Associated Documents (4)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Naroll, RaoulCultural determinants and the concept of the sick society
Krauss, Herbert H.Cross-cultural study of the thwarting disorientation theory of suicide
Naroll, RaoulThwarting disorientation and suicide
Krauss, Herbert H.A cross-cultural study of suicide

Associated Hypotheses (10)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Naroll, Raoul"Thwarting disorientation situations tend to cause suicide. . . . [There are] correlations between . . . thwarting disorientation traits and suicide source wordage" (139)
Krauss, Herbert H."More suicides should take place in thwarting disorientation contexts than non-thwarting disorientation contexts" (354)
Krauss, Herbert H."There should be a positive correlation between the total number of suicides recorded and the number of thwarting disorientation situations scored present for each society" (354)
Krauss, Herbert H."There should be a positive correlation between the total number of suicides committed in the context of thwarting disorientation and the number of thwarting disorientation situations scored present for each society" (354)
Krauss, Herbert H."The . . . correlation of thwarting disorientation situations and TD suicide [should] exceed [that between] thwarting disorientation situations and non TD suicide cases" (356)
Krauss, Herbert H."The thwarting disorientation contexts associated with individual suicides should be the same as the thwarting disorientation situations scored present for the society" (354)
Naroll, Raoul"Thwarting disorientation situations, in which a victim blames a person for the victim's loss of social ties, tend to cause suicide" (1)
Krauss, Herbert H."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)
Krauss, Herbert H."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)
Krauss, Herbert H."The number of suicide cases . . . should be directly related to the number of TD [thwarting disorientation] situations scored present [in a] cultunit" (44)

Associated OCMs

  1. interpersonal relations