Citation

Zonda T, Bozsonyi K, Veres E, Kmetty Z. Szociologiai Szemle 2010; 16(2): 96-105.

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(Copyright © 2010)

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Abstract

The authors have not found any studies that show an unambiguous and close relation between the date of suicide and the birthday of the victims. They made an analysis on the Hungarian suicides between 1970 and 2002 with a method known from the literature and also with a modern, more sophisticated one. It was found that Hungarian men show explicit sensitivity to their birthday's date: significantly more men commit suicide on their birthday in all age groups than on any other day of the year. Among women, a relation of weak significance appeared only in the older age group. The authors suggest the special sensitivity of Hungarian men which they interpret in the framework of Gabennesch's "broken promise effect", but they think it necessary to do further research on this theme in Hungary.

Language: en