Citation

Moore MD. Sociol. Focus 2022; 55(4): 392-404.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, North Central Sociological Association)

DOI

10.1080/00380237.2022.2133032

PMID

unavailable

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. © 2022 North Central Sociological Association.

Language: en