Suicide Notes at Symbolic Ages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13656203 |
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| Authors | Antoon A Leenaars (0000-0001-5443-3387, Windsor, Canada, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1034-1034 |
| Publication date | 1996-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1996.78.3.1034 |
| PMID | 8711022 |
| OpenAlex | W2288139283 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
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
Developmental psychology · Medical emergency · Perspective (graphical · Poison control · Psychoanalysis · Suicide prevention · Symbolic interactionism · The Symbolic · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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