Social Determinants of Suicides in the Czech Republic between 1995 and 2010

Title:

Social Determinants of Suicides in the Czech Republic between 1995 and 2010

Creator:

Katrňák, Tomáš and Tyrychtrová, Lucia

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:8a67831a-9132-4d72-842a-acbef3aac8d5
uuid:8a67831a-9132-4d72-842a-acbef3aac8d5
doi:10.13060/00380288.2016.52.3.260

Subject:

suicide, suicide rate, social factors, Czech society, and time period 1995–2010

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

The text is concerned with suicides in the Czech Republic. It seeks to determine which social variables, and to what extent, have affected suicidal behaviour since 1989. The authors draw on Durkheim’s theory that society prevents suicidal tendencies. They formulate six hypotheses to account for the effects of social variables (year, sex, age, education, and marital status) on suicide rates, which they test using data from 1995 to 2010. Their findings show that time weakens the odds for committing suicides. Regardless of the time, women and people who are young, more educated, and living in a marriage face the lowest risk of suicide. That marriage works as a shield against suicide is especially true for men (its protective function for women is significantly lower). In the period observed, there was a relative increase in the effect of two social variables: middle age (45–69 years) and lower education. The structure of variables explaining suicide rates changed during the time period observed.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

Sociologický časopis | 2016 Volume:52 | Number:3

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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