Citation

Shah A. Psychol. Rep. 2009; 104(2): 609-612.

Affiliation

University of Central Lancashire, Preston. ajit.shah@wlmht.nhs.uk

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

19610491

Abstract

There is mixed evidence of a relation for suicide rates in the general population with urbanisation. A cross-national study of 76 countries was undertaken examining the a priori hypothesis that the relation of the general population suicide rates with urbanisation, using data from the World Health Organization and United Nations, would be curvilinear and follow an inverted U-shaped curve, with a quadratic pattern. The predicted curvilinear relation was not found. This may have been due to major methodological limitations in cross-national studies, so this hypothesised curvilinear relationship may be better examined in longitudinal studies over time in individual countries undergoing urbanisation.

Language: en