Simonson Randy H
College of Southern Idaho, PO Box 1238, 315 Falls Avenue, Twin Falls, ID 83303-1238, USA.
Death Stud. 2008;32(10):951-60. doi: 10.1080/07481180802440589.
Individuals who think about suicide but do not feel suicidally hopeless tend to be less religious and can therefore entertain thoughts of suicide unabated by religiousness. Religiousness, suicide ideation, and hopelessness were surveyed among 279 Idaho college students, 37 (13%) of whom were non-hopeless suicide ideators. A total of only 21 (7%) qualified as ideator/hopeless or non-ideator/hopeless with the remaining 221 (79%) qualifying as non-ideator/non-hopeless. Lower religiousness coinciding with greater ideation supports Durkheim's position that religious social affiliation protects against suicide. The fact that non-hopeless ideators were less religious than all others suggests that religion may provide hope that buffers against suicidal ideas.
那些考虑自杀但并不感到自杀式绝望的人往往宗教信仰较少，因此他们的自杀念头不会因宗教信仰而减弱。对279名爱达荷州大学生进行了宗教信仰、自杀意念和绝望感的调查，其中37人（13%）有非绝望性自杀意念。总共只有21人（7%）符合意念者/绝望或非意念者/绝望的标准，其余221人（79%）符合非意念者/非绝望的标准。宗教信仰较低与自杀意念较强同时出现，这支持了涂尔干的观点，即宗教社会联系能预防自杀。非绝望性意念者比其他所有人宗教信仰都少，这一事实表明宗教可能提供了缓冲自杀念头的希望。
