Cross-cultural study of the thwarting disorientation theory of suicide

Krauss, Herbert H.; Krauss, Beatrice J.

Cross-cultural study of the thwarting disorientation theory of suicide

Journal of Abnormal Psychology • Vol/Iss. 73 • Published In 1968 • Pages: 353-357 •

By Krauss, Herbert H., Krauss, Beatrice J.

Hypothesis

"There should be a positive correlation between the total number of suicides committed in the context of thwarting disorientation and the number of thwarting disorientation situations scored present for each society" (354)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Pearson’s product-moment correlation	Supported	p<.01	.46	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Thwarting Disorientation Situations	Independent	`NONE`
Thwarting Disorientation Suicides	Dependent	Suicide

Related Hypotheses

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Krauss, Herbert H.	1968	"There should be a positive correlation between the total number of suicides recorded and the number of thwarting disorientation situations scored present for each society" (354)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Krauss, Herbert H.	1968	"The . . . correlation of thwarting disorientation situations and TD suicide [should] exceed [that between] thwarting disorientation situations and non TD suicide cases" (356)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Krauss, Herbert H.	1968	"The thwarting disorientation contexts associated with individual suicides should be the same as the thwarting disorientation situations scored present for the society" (354)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Krauss, Herbert H.	1968	"More suicides should take place in thwarting disorientation contexts than non-thwarting disorientation contexts" (354)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Krauss, Herbert H.	1966	"The number of suicide cases reported to be caused by extrapersonal frustration [EF] should be related to the number of TD [thwarting disorientation] situations in a cultunit, but this relationship should be weaker than the relationship between number of suicides . . . scored IF [interpersonal frustration] and number of TD [thwarting disorientation] situations scored present" (45)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author

Cross-cultural study of the thwarting disorientation theory of suicide

Journal of Abnormal Psychology • Vol/Iss. 73 • Published In 1968 • Pages: 353-357 • Cite

By Krauss, Herbert H., Krauss, Beatrice J.

Hypothesis

Test

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Journal of Abnormal Psychology • Vol/Iss. 73 • Published In 1968 • Pages: 353-357 •