Leenaars A A
University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
Psychol Rep. 1996 Jun;78(3 Pt 1):1034. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1996.78.3.1034.
Symbolic ages, like 40, 65, or 70, are often stocktaking occasions. Phillips and Smith in 1991 showed that suicides peak at such ages for married males and suggested that suicide notes may be an avenue to analyzing such stocktaking in people's lives. 40 notes from symbolic and nonsymbolic ages were compared based on a multidimensional clinical perspective. No differences were noted. Although caution is in order in accepting the null hypothesis, it is speculated that macrosocial phenomena may not be easily translatable into psychological ones.
诸如40岁、65岁或70岁这样具有象征意义的年龄，往往是进行人生盘点的时刻。菲利普斯和史密斯在1991年指出，已婚男性的自杀率在这些年龄达到峰值，并提出自杀遗书可能是分析人们生活中此类盘点的一个途径。基于多维临床视角，对来自具有象征意义和非象征意义年龄的40份遗书进行了比较。未发现差异。尽管在接受零假设时需要谨慎，但据推测，宏观社会现象可能不容易转化为心理现象。
