Yamasaki Akiko, Chinami Masanobu, Morgenthaler Stephan, Kaneko Yoshihiro, Nakashima Kazuko, Shirakawa Taro
Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshidakonoe, Sakyo-ku, 606-8501 Kyoto, Japan.
Psychol Rep. 2004 Dec;95(3 Pt 1):917-20. doi: 10.2466/pr0.95.3.917-920.
Correlations among suicide rate, unemployment rate, and enterprise failure were examined from 1976 to 1994 by using a Loess smoothing method. Significant positive correlations were found between suicide rate in men and unemployment and between suicide rate in both sexes and enterprise failure (p < .001).