The Impact of the Economy on Suicide and Homicide Rates in Japan and the United States

David Lester, Yutaka Motohashi and Bijou Yang
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David Lester: Center for the Study of Suicide, RR41, 5 Stonegate Court, Blackwood, New Jersey 08012, USA
Yutaka Motohashi: Department of Public Health, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
Bijou Yang: Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1992, vol. 38, issue 4, 314-317

Abstract: A time series study of socioeconomic correlates of suicide and homicide in Japan and the USA from 1953 to 1982 revealed cross-national differences. Divorce rates were positively associated with rates of personal violence in the USA but negatively associated with these rates in Japan. Unemployment and female labor force participation also correlated differently with rates of personal violence in the two nations suggesting that different theories may be necessary to account for the variation in rates of personal violence in different societies.

Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1177/002076409203800411

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