The incidence of suicide and the fear of the dead in non-literate societies

"The prediction was that a high incidence of suicide would be associated with a low fear of the dead" (207)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Spearman’s rank-order correlation	Not Supported	`UNKNOWN`	-.07	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Fear Of The Dead	Independent	Social Readjustments To Death, Cult Of The Dead
Suicide	Dependent	Suicide

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Lester, David	1975	A test for association between the suicide rate and fear of death found no support	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Lester, David	1969	"[There is a correlation between] the degree to which nonliterate societies fear the dead as causes of illness and the needs for achievement and affiliation as evidenced in the folk tales of the societies" (283)	Not Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Lester, David	1968	The incidence of suicide will be associated with the need for achievement (161).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Lester, David	1971	". . . There is no evidence that mutilation behaviors in primitive societies are related to the incidence of suicide in those societies" (802)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Lester, David	1968	"The incidence of suicide . . . was significantly correlated with the need for power . . ." (1260)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author