Citation

Qian G. Omega (Westport) 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Sage Publications)

DOI

10.1177/0030222819880091

PMID

31584325

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine relationships between suicide and subjective well-being. Correlation and regression analysis are conducted on 81 countries’ aggregate data from United Nation agencies. Generally, suicide is not significantly related to life satisfaction; or negative affect, or positive social emotion, but significantly negatively related to positive self-emotion, or positive interpersonal emotion. In preventing suicide, subjective well-being’s affective aspect might play a more important role than its cognitive aspect, positive affect might play a more important role than negative affect, and the personal aspect of positive affect might play a more important role than the social aspect.

Keywords suicide, subjective well-being, positive affect, human development report, hierarchical multiple linear regression.

Language: en

Keywords

hierarchical multiple linear regression.; human development report; positive affect; subjective well-being; suicide