Kaufman James C
Learning Research Institute, California State University at San Bernardino, Department of Psychology, San Bernadino, CA, USA.
Death Stud. 2003 Nov;27(9):813-21. doi: 10.1080/713842357.
Although several investigations have found that poets tend to die younger than other types of writers, these studies often do not take into account variables of gender and culture. This study examines 1,987 deceased writers from four different cultures: American, Chinese, Turkish, and Eastern European. Both male and female poets had the shortest life spans of all four types of writers (fiction writers, poets, playwrights, and non-fiction writers), and poets had the shortest life spans in three of the four cultures (and the second shortest life span among Eastern European writers). Possible reasons for the poet's shorter life span are then discussed.
尽管多项调查发现诗人往往比其他类型的作家寿命短，但这些研究往往没有考虑到性别和文化等变量。本研究调查了来自四种不同文化的1987位已故作家：美国、中国、土耳其和东欧。在所有四种类型的作家（小说作家、诗人、剧作家和非虚构作家）中，男性和女性诗人的寿命最短，并且在四种文化中的三种文化里诗人的寿命最短（在东欧作家中寿命排第二短）。随后讨论了诗人寿命较短的可能原因。
