Occupational Mobility and Suicide Among White Males

Breed, Warren

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“…Losing a parent decreases potential socioeconomic resources. Early familial disruption can result in downward social mobility for the surviving family members (Biblarz & Gottainer, 2000), which can increase suicide risk (Breed, 1963). Lost social regulation here refers to the aforementioned diminution of informal social control against unhealthy behaviors such as substance abuse (Nash et al, 2005).…”

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Life and death in the family: Early parental death, parental remarriage, and offspring suicide risk in adulthood

Hollingshaus

Smith

2015

Social Science & Medicine

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Early-life parental death (PD) may increase suicide and other mortality risk in adulthood. The potential implications of subsequent remarriage of the widowed parent (RWP) for suicide have not been well examined. Data came from the Utah Population Database for birth cohorts between 1886 and 1960, yielding a sample of N=663,729 individuals, including 4,533 suicides. Cox models showed PD was associated with increased adult suicide risk before age 50, and with increased risk of cardiovascular disease deaths (CVD) for adults of all ages. For females, RWP attenuated the suicide relationship before age 50 (though not statistically significant), but significantly exacerbated it after age 50. RWP had no significant impact for males. Further, for females, PD's positive association with suicide was stronger than with CVD before age 50. These findings reinforce the importance of biological and social mechanisms in linking early-life stressors to adult mental and physical health.

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Life and death in the family: Early parental death, parental remarriage, and offspring suicide risk in adulthood

Hollingshaus

Smith

2015

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Both upward as well as downward social mobility might serve to increase the rate of suicide (Durkheim, 1951). Additional confirmation of this suggestion was found by Breed (1963, 1972) who explored occupation mobility and suicide.…”

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Suicide by Industry and Occupation: A Structural‐Change Approach

Reinhart

Linden

1982

Suicide & Life Threat Behav

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Data on suicide rates for males age 20 to 64 by occupation and industry for 1950 are examined. Two hypotheses are tested: The first, a static hypothesis relating variations in suicide with the size of the group from which choice of significant others is made, was not supported. The second, in which variations in suicide are related to changes in the size of the group from which significant others are selected, is supported. The authors conclude that their structural change approach to suicide is compatible with both sociological and psychological approaches to suicide.

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“…A case‐control method is ideally suited to the study of suicide. Breed's (1965) classic study of downward mobility and suicide was based upon a case‐control design; he compared the distribution of downward mobility among a sample of suicides to the distribution of downward mobility among a sample of carefully selected controls. Maris (1981) has used a similar study strategy in comparing suicide completers to suicide attempters and individuals who died of “natural causes.” Comparing suicides to controls for factors that differentiate the suicides from the controls, is, in a sense, backwards.…”

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On Precipitating Factors: Cancer as a Cause of Suicide

Marshall

Burnett

Brasure

1983

Suicide & Life Threat Behav

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This case-control study provides individual-based data describing the impact of being a cancer patient on the odds of suicide. 5,009 suicides and 17,064 controls are compared. The data indicate that cancer patients are 50 to 100 percent more likely than nonpatients to commit suicide. This and other studies indicate that health status should be considered in future attempts to relate suicide to social environment.

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Occupational Mobility and Suicide Among White Males

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Life and death in the family: Early parental death, parental remarriage, and offspring suicide risk in adulthood

Life and death in the family: Early parental death, parental remarriage, and offspring suicide risk in adulthood

Suicide by Industry and Occupation: A Structural‐Change Approach

On Precipitating Factors: Cancer as a Cause of Suicide

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