The mental health effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic might be
profound1 and there are suggestions that suicide rates will rise, although this is not …

Cultural and economic patterns from 130 sociological works on suicide from 1981 to 1995
are reviewed in this article. The traditional Durkheimian perspective on suicide was often …

A total of 293 findings from 42 studies on the impact of publicized suicide stories in the
media on the incidence of suicide in the real world were analyzed by logistic regression …

The literature on marital status and happiness has neglected comparative analysis,
cohabitation, and gender-specific analysis. It is not clear if the married-happiness …

This article reviews the findings of 84 sociological studies published over a 15‐year period.
These studies deal with tests of the modernization and/or social integration perspectives on …

Research on the effect of suicide stories in the media on suicide in the real world has been
marked by much debate and inconsistent findings. Recent narrative reviews have suggested …

The “productivity puzzle,” or gender gap in research productivity, is often thought to be due,
in part, to gendered child care responsibilities. The time, energy, and money devoted to child …

Objective. Sociological theories of deviant behavior have not been systematically applied to
the problem of who uses and who does not use cyberpornography on the Internet. The …

Research on the relationship of religion and suicide has relied almost exclusively on the
concept of religious integration as a causal variable. The present paper proposes an …

Background A growing number of studies indicate that sensationalist reporting of suicide is
associated with increases in suicide rates, but in the light of some negative findings, the …