Economic Anomie and Suicide During War Times

Abstract

The study consists of examining the relationship between suicides that took place in Turkey between 1975 and 2019, economic factors under the influence of wars, and crude suicide rates. In this context, the effects of factors such as unemployment, inflation, per capita gross domestic product, and economic crises on suicides are analyzed by the time series method. ARDL (auto regressive distributed lag bound test) was used in the study. It has been determined that suicides are positively related to the 1994 and 2001 economic crises during war times in Turkey. In addition, it has been contended that there is a positive relationship with the gross domestic product.