Jacobson G F, Portuges S H
Suicide Life Threat Behav. 1978 Winter;8(4):217-24.
This paper examines the relation of marital separation and divorce to suicide. The persons studied are applicants to the Benjamin Rush Center, the crisis clinic division of the Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center/Los Angeles Psychiatric Service. The sample consists of 238 subjects, of whom 39, or 16.4% were suicidal, and 23 had made one or more suicide attempts at some prior date. Those seriously discussing separation, but not actually separated, tended to be less frequently suicidal than the long-term separated/divorced (.05 less than p less than .10). The study further examined the relationship of important events and interspouse transactions to suicide potential. Significant associations were found in the relationship of suicide potential to verbal attack by spouse (p = .03), vacillation in the last two weeks (p = .02), and vacillation since the first serious discussion of divorce (p = .02). Several other associations approached statistical significance. The authors believe that the findings in regard to vacillation and interspouse aggression are especially interesting and merit further study.
本文探讨了婚姻分居和离婚与自杀之间的关系。研究对象是本杰明·拉什中心（迪迪·赫希社区心理健康中心/洛杉矶精神病服务中心的危机诊疗部门）的申请者。样本包括238名受试者，其中39名（占16.4%）有自杀倾向，23名曾在之前的某个时间有过一次或多次自杀未遂行为。那些认真讨论分居但实际上尚未分居的人，其自杀倾向往往低于长期分居/离婚者（p值在0.05至0.10之间）。该研究进一步考察了重大事件和配偶间互动与自杀可能性之间的关系。发现自杀可能性与配偶的言语攻击（p = 0.03）、过去两周内的犹豫不决（p = 0.02）以及自首次认真讨论离婚以来的犹豫不决（p = 0.02）之间存在显著关联。其他一些关联接近统计学显著性。作者认为，关于犹豫不决和配偶间攻击行为的研究结果尤其有趣，值得进一步研究。
