Article Review on "Suicide Statistical Analysis of Suicide and African-American"

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Suicide

Statistical Analysis of Suicide and African-American Culture

From a general statistical standpoint, the risk of suicide is lower among black Americans than their white counterparts. However, racial distinctions can provide a useful framework for connecting certain cultural and environmental realities to suicidal tendencies. This is the imperative that underscores the review below of four corresponding articles:

The first article considered here is that provided by Neeleman et al. (1998), entitled "Suicide acceptability in African- and white Americans: the role of religion" and originally published in Vol. 186, No. 1 of the Journal of Nervous Mental Disorders. This article proceeds from the primary research question which inquires into the relationship between religious belief and suicide acceptability. The study seeks to measure this correlation as subdivided by race. Therefore, using a sample of black and white respondents, proposes suicide acceptability as the dependent variable.

The independent variables are the race of the respondent, the respondent's religious orientation and certain emotional variables. Among these three primary categories of independent variable, subdivisions of religious orientation would prove particularly relevant to the study's findings. Here, qualities such as orthodox religious beliefs and personal devotion would be measured using the cognitive dissonance model with adjustment for ethnic response bias. The ANOVA strategy of statistical evaluation would prove well-suited to the demand for measuring sometimes slight variations between respondents that could ultimately be used to draw far-reaching conclusions. Among these conclusions would be the finding that higher levels of suicidal acceptability are found in white demographics than in black demographics in inverse proportion with the permeation of religious devotion.

The subject of the study by Walker et al. (2006) would be quite similar in nature to that by Neeleman et al. Entitled "Lay Theories of Suicide: An Examination of Culturally Relevant Suicide Beliefs and Attributions Among African-Americans and European-Americans" and published in Vol. 32, No. 3 of the Journal of Black Psychology, the study also seeks to measure the connection between suicidal proclivities and racial affiliation. The primary research question here, however, centers on African-Americans specifically, using 'European-Americans' as a control group. Here, the racial variation accounts for the appropriateness of ANOVA statistical analysis.

Additionally, race is the independent variable in this study, with the two dependent variables being lay beliefs and attributions toward suicide. In order to assess the relationship between these variables, the study engaged 251 respondents of African-American and European-American ethnicity from an undergraduate context. Measurements were gained using a wide range of indexing instruments. The study identifies the Attitudes Toward Suicide Scale, Life Ownership Orientation Questionnaire, Stigma Questionnaire, and Suicide Ideation Questionnaire as the data-collection tools and the basis for the set of findings ultimately channeled through ANOVA statistical assessment.

Part B:

The study by Kaslow et al. (2000), entitled "Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts Among African-American Women" and originally published in Vol. 12 of Depression and Anxiety, employs a multivariate analysis in order to identify the primary risk factors that can be used to predict a propensity toward suicidal behavior amongst African-American Women.

The study would consult a sample of 285 African-American women who presented at the hospital used for the data-collection process. Of the presenting women, 137 were… READ MORE

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