What about Development? Social Capital and Suicide. Issue 4 (2nd October 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Moore, Matthew D.
• Is Part Of: Sociological focus. Volume 55:Issue 4(2022)
• Page Start: 392
• Page End: 404
• Publication Date: 2022-10-02
• Subjects: Social sciences -- Periodicals; Sociology -- Periodicals; 301.05
• DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2022.2133032
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0038-0237

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Suicide causes more than 800, 000 deaths a year worldwide. Finding factors that may reduce or prevent suicide is of utmost concern. Social capital has been one of the factors examined for its role in reducing suicide; however, the exact relationship between social capital and suicide is not clear. Moreover, many of the studies examining social capital and suicide take place in high-income areas. There is a void in our knowledge of the relationship between social capital and suicide because of our lack of inclusion of different levels of development. The study – including 41 high-income and 77 middle and low-income countries – found that social capital was a significant predictor of suicide in high-income countries; social capital was not significantly associated with suicide in middle or low-income countries.