Wilkinson K P, Israel G D
Suicide Life Threat Behav. 1984 Fall;14(3):187-200. doi: 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1984.tb00448.x.
Recent findings suggest that suicide increases with rurality, but research on rural suicide leaves many questions unanswered. This study specifies problems of community organization as a reason for expecting a positive effect of rurality on the suicide rate. A multiple regression analysis of county data shows that rurality has a substantial positive effect and is, in fact, the best predictor of the suicide rate among several variables selected from the previous literature. Additional research is needed to test the interpretation that rurality contributes to an incomplete, fragmented form of community organization which influences the suicide rate by disrupting primary relationships.
最近的研究结果表明，自杀率随乡村化程度的增加而上升，但关于农村自杀问题的研究仍有许多问题未得到解答。本研究将社区组织问题明确为预期乡村化对自杀率产生积极影响的一个原因。对县级数据进行的多元回归分析表明，乡村化具有显著的积极影响，事实上，在从以往文献中选取的几个变量中，乡村化是自杀率的最佳预测指标。需要进一步的研究来验证这一解释，即乡村化导致社区组织形式不完整、碎片化，进而通过破坏主要人际关系来影响自杀率。
