Changing Attitudes Toward Euthanasia and Suicide for Terminally Ill Persons, 1977 to 2016
An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13629581 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brandon Attell (0000-0002-4370-3924, Georgia Health Policy Center, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 355-379 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0030222817729612 |
| PMID | 28871834 |
| OpenAlex | W2750634297 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 37 |
Several longitudinal studies show that over time the American public has become more approving of euthanasia and suicide for terminally ill persons. Yet, these previous findings are limited because they derive from biased estimates of disaggregated hierarchical data. Using insights from life course sociological theory and cross-classified logistic regression models, I better account for this liberalization process by disentangling the age, period, and cohort effects that contribute to longitudinal changes in these attitudes. The results of the analysis point toward a continued liberalization of both attitudes over time, although the magnitude of change was greater for suicide compared with euthanasia. More fluctuation in the probability of supporting both measures was exhibited for the age and period effects over the cohort effects. In addition, age-based differences in supporting both measures were found between men and women and various religious affiliations
Assisted suicide · Cohort · Cohort effect · Liberalization · Logistic regression · Longitudinal study · Multilevel model · Palliative care · Political science · Psychiatry · Sociology · Terminally ill · Demography · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Health disparities and outcomes · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |