Population and Development Studies, School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Population and Development Studies, School of Public Policy and Administration, associate Professor at Sports Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
PLoS One. 2023 Oct 23;18(10):e0286961. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0286961. eCollection 2023.
The aims for this study was to prove the impacts of marital events (marriage rate, divorce rate and marriage squeeze), economic development, and social development on the suicide rate among urban and rural Chinese and reveal the differences in these impacts between urban and rural areas and between genders.
An explanatory time-series analysis methodology was adopted to analyze the nation-wide data ranging from 1987-2017.
Marriage rate was a protective factor against the suicide rate among urban and rural men, and rural women; however, divorce rate was a protective factor against the suicide rate only among rural women. For the four groups, the economic development level measured by per capita GDP is a protective factor, while social development measured by urbanization and rural-urban labor migration rates in rural areas plays different roles.
Marriage and divorce rates were found to have different meanings for the four groups. This study offers a reference for designing relevant policies and projects to intervene in suicidal behaviors among different groups.
本研究旨在探讨婚姻事件（结婚率、离婚率和婚姻挤压）、经济发展和社会发展对城乡中国自杀率的影响，并揭示城乡和性别之间这些影响的差异。
采用解释性时间序列分析方法，对 1987 年至 2017 年全国范围内的数据进行分析。
结婚率是城乡男性和农村女性自杀率的保护因素；而离婚率仅对农村女性自杀率有保护作用。对于这四组人群，人均 GDP 衡量的经济发展水平是一个保护因素，而城市化和农村到城市的劳动力迁移率衡量的社会发展则发挥着不同的作用。
婚姻和离婚率对这四组人群有不同的意义。本研究为设计相关政策和项目以干预不同人群的自杀行为提供了参考。
