Factors Affecting the Unacceptability of Suicide and the Effects of Evaluator Depression and Religiosity

1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles T. Lo Presto ◽  
Martin F. Sherman ◽  
Margaret A. Dicarlo
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Mood State ◽  
Severe Depression ◽  
Bone Cancer ◽  
Partial Replication ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Catholic College ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
And Gender

This study represents a partial replication and extension of Deluty's investigations of the factors affecting suicide unacceptability [1]. Two hundred eighty-two Catholic college students evaluated scenarios which manipulated precipitating illness (i.e., severe depression, chronic physical pain, and terminal bone cancer) and gender of victim. In addition, evaluator variables (i.e., gender, mood state, and religiosity) were also considered. Results indicated that the unacceptability of suicide is a function of precipitating illness and gender of victim as well as a function of an evaluator's mood state, and religiosity. In addition, complex interactions among several of these variables were found, suggesting the complexity of decisions regarding the unacceptability of suicide.

Physical Illness, Psychiatric Illness, and the Acceptability of Suicide

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Deluty
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Severe Depression ◽  
Bone Cancer ◽  
Physical Illness ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Attitudes Toward Suicide

The present study assessed whether attitudes toward suicide vary as a function of the type of illness that precipitates the suicide. The participants in the study were 455 college students who were administered a questionnaire consisting of one of seven scenarios describing a fictitious man who has decided to kill himself, as well as a series of evaluative questions about the man and his decision. The man was portrayed as suffering from chronic, severe depression in five of the scenarios (the scenarios differed in their descriptions of the depression); from chronic, severe physical pain in the sixth scenario; and from terminal bone cancer in the seventh. Evaluations of the suicide were most favorable when it occurred in response to terminal physical illness, less favorable in response to chronic, non-terminal physical illness, and least favorable in response to chronic psychiatric illness.

Factors Affecting the Acceptability of Suicide

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Deluty
Keyword(s):  
Bone Cancer ◽  
Male Victims ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Suicide Victim ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Attitudes Toward Suicide ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Commit Suicide

The present study examined whether attitudes toward suicide vary as a function of the age and gender of the suicide victim, the gender of the evaluator, and the type of illness that precipitates the suicide. The participants in the study were 780 college students who were administered a questionnaire consisting of one of twelve scenarios describing a fictitious individual who has decided to commit suicide, as well as a series of evaluative scales and questions about the individual and his/her decision. The scenarios varied in terms of the age of the victim (i.e., forty-five vs. seventy), the gender of the victim, and the precipitating illness (i.e., chronic depression, chronic physical pain, or terminal bone cancer). Evaluations of suicide tended to be significantly more favorable when the evaluators were male, when male victims were being judged, when elderly victims were being evaluated, or when terminal cancer was the precipitating illness.

Differential factors affecting testing and career choices of Black college students

1972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald G. Taylor ◽  
Richard D. Grosz ◽  
Robert Whetstone ◽  
Catherine Joseph ◽  
Leon Willis
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
Black College ◽  
Black College Students ◽  
Factors Affecting

scholarly journals Factors Affecting the Control of Chronic Rhinosinusitis With Nasal Polyps: A Comparison in Patients With or Without NERD

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 215265672110038
Author(s):  
Markus Jukka Lilja ◽  
Anni Koskinen ◽  
Paula Virkkula ◽  
Seija Inkeri Vento ◽  
Jyri Myller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Rhinosinusitis ◽  
Nasal Polyps ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Sinus Surgery ◽  
Logrank Test ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Advanced Therapy ◽  
And Gender

Objectives The aim was to compare the control of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) after endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS), in patients with/without nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug exacerbated respiratory disease (NERD). Study Desing: A retrospective hospital-based sample of CRSwNP patients with/without NERD with follow-up. Setting Tertiary rhinology centers. Methods Electronic patient record data from 116 CRSwNP patients (46 with NERD and 70 without NERD) undergoing ESS during 2001–17 were studied. Mean follow-up time was 9.9 years (range 1.1–15.3). Endpoints reflecting uncontrolled CRSwNP were revision ESS, and need for rescue/advanced therapy (e.g. antibiotics, oral corticosteroids and/or biological therapy) during follow-up. NERD was variable of interest and gender, age, asthma, allergic rhinitis (AR), smoking, Lund-Mackay (LM) score of sinus computed tomography scans previous ESS and baseline total ethmoidectomy were used as covariates. Results Twenty-one (49.7%) NERD patients and 18 (25.7%) non-NERD patients underwent revision ESS within a mean ± SD of 4.3 ± 2.8 and 3.7 ± 2.6 years, respectively (p = .013, by Logrank test). In Cox´s regression models, NERD, female gender, young age, asthma, AR, previous ESS, and lack of total ethmoidectomy were associated with revision-ESS. In adjusted model, only the total ethmoidectomy predicted revision-free survival. In adjusted logistic regression model, there was an insignificant trend that NERD and LM score were associated with the need for rescue/advanced therapy in the follow-up. Conclusions Patients with NERD had higher risk of uncontrolled CRSwNP than patient group without NERD, as measured by revision ESS and/or need for rescue/advanced therapy in the follow-up. In addition, baseline total ethmoidectomy was associated with revision-free survival.

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