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Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2011 Dec;37(12):1611-23. doi: 10.1177/0146167211418529. Epub 2011 Aug 15.
Cultures of honor facilitate certain forms of interpersonal violence. The authors suggest that these cultures might also promote values and expectations that could heighten suicide risk, such as strict gender-role standards and hypersensitivity to reputational threats, which could lead people living in such cultures to consider death as an option when failure occurs or reputation is threatened sufficiently. Study 1 shows that, controlling for a host of statewide covariates, honor states in the United States have significantly higher male and female suicide rates than do nonhonor states, particularly in nonmetropolitan areas among Whites. Study 2 shows that statewide levels of antidepressant prescriptions (an indicator of mental health resource utilization) are lower in honor states, whereas levels of major depression are higher, and statewide levels of depression are associated with suicide rates only among honor states. Finally, Study 3 shows that individual endorsement of honor ideology is positively associated with depression.
荣誉文化助长了某些形式的人际暴力。作者认为，这些文化也可能助长一些价值观和期望，从而增加自杀风险，比如严格的性别角色标准和对名誉威胁的过度敏感，这些因素可能导致生活在这种文化中的人在遭遇失败或名誉受到严重威胁时，将死亡视为一种选择。研究 1 表明，在美国，在控制了一系列全州范围的协变量后，荣誉州的男性和女性自杀率明显高于非荣誉州，尤其是在白人为主的非大都市地区。研究 2 表明，荣誉州的全州范围的抗抑郁药处方（心理健康资源利用的一个指标）水平较低，而重度抑郁症的水平较高，且全州范围内的抑郁程度与自杀率仅在荣誉州相关。最后，研究 3 表明，对荣誉意识形态的个人认可与抑郁呈正相关。
