Towards a reassessment of the role of divorce in suicide outcomes: Evidence from five pacific rim populations

Paul S.F. Yip, Ying-Yeh Chen, Saman Yousuf, Carmen K.M. Lee, Kenji Kawano, Virginia Routley, B.C. Ben Park, Takashi Yamauchi, Hisateru Tachimori, Angela Clapperton and Kevin Chien-Chang Wu

Social Science & Medicine, 2012, vol. 75, issue 2, 358-366

Abstract: The connection between divorce and suicide risk in Asia is unclear. To understand the contribution of cultural transitions to suicide among the divorced, we compare age- and sex-specific suicide rates among divorced men and women from five Pacific Rim populations: Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and the state of Victoria in Australia. On a cultural spectrum, we consider Hong Kong and Taiwan to lie between the more individualistic Australian culture and the more collectivistic Japanese and Korean cultures. Coefficients of aggravation (COA) are also compared.

Keywords: Divorce; Suicide; Hong Kong; Victoria; Japan; South Korea; Taiwan; Culture; Confucianism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.03.009

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