Entry:
Sawyer, Darwin and Sobal, Jeffery, "Public Attitudes toward Suicide: Demographic and Ideological Correlates," Public Opinion Quarterly, 51 (Spring, 1987), 92-101.
Abstract:
Support for a person's right to commit suicide when the person is tired of living, faced with an incurable disease, bankruptcy, or family dishonor, conform to an one-dimensional Guttman type scale. Pro-life beliefs and civil libertarian values both play a prominent role in mediating demographic influences on suicide attitudes.
GSS Years:1982
Other Data Sets:
Gallup 1978
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GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document: |
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Variable Name |
Variable Label |
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| SUICIDE1 |
SUICIDE IF INCURABLE DISEASE |
| SUICIDE2 |
SUICIDE IF BANKRUPT |
| SUICIDE3 |
SUICIDE IF DISHONORED FAMILY |
| SUICIDE4 |
SUICIDE IF TIRED OF LIVING |
| AGE |
AGE OF RESPONDENT |
| RACE |
RACE OF RESPONDENT |
| SEX |
RESPONDENTS SEX |
| MARITAL |
MARITAL STATUS |
| REGION |
REGION OF INTERVIEW |
| XNORCSIZ |
EXPANDED N.O.R.C. SIZE CODE |
| PRESTIGE |
RS OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE SCORE (1970) |
| INCOME |
TOTAL FAMILY INCOME |
| WRKSTAT |
LABOR FRCE STATUS |
| PARTYID |
POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION |
| POLVIEWS |
THINK OF SELF AS LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE |
| RELIG |
RS RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE |
| RELITEN |
STRENGTH OF AFFILIATION |
| ATTEND |
HOW OFTEN R ATTENDS RELIGIOUS SERVICES |
| EDUC |
HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED |
| ABRAPE |
PREGNANT AS RESULT OF RAPE |
| ABSINGLE |
NOT MARRIED |
| ABDEFECT |
STRONG CHANCE OF SERIOUS DEFECT |
| ABHLTH |
WOMANS HEALTH SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED |
| ABPOOR |
LOW INCOME--CANT AFFORD MORE CHILDREN |
| ABNOMORE |
MARRIED--WANTS NO MORE CHILDREN |
| ABANY |
ABORTION IF WOMAN WANTS FOR ANY REASON |
| SPKATH |
ALLOW ANTI-RELIGIONIST TO SPEAK |
| SPKRAC |
ALLOW RACIST TO SPEAK |
| SPKCOM |
ALLOW COMMUNIST TO SPEAK |
| SPKMIL |
ALLOW MILITARIST TO SPEAK |
| SPKHOMO |
ALLOW HOMOSEXUAL TO SPEAK |
| ANOMIA5 |
LOT OF THE AVERAGE MAN GETTING WORSE |
| ANOMIA6 |
NOT FAIR TO BRING CHILD INTO WORLD |
| ANOMIA7 |
OFFICIALS NOT INTERESTED IN AVERAGE MAN |
| SOCREL |
SPEND EVENING WITH RELATIVES |
| SOCOMMUN |
SPEND EVENING WITH NEIGHBOR |
| SOCFREND |
SPEND EVENING WITH FRIENDS |
| SOCBAR |
SPEND EVENING AT BAR |
| SATCITY |
CITY OR PLACE R LIVES IN |
| SATHOBBY |
"NON-WORKING ACTIVITIES |
| SATFAM |
FAMILY LIFE |
| SATHEALT |
HEALTH AND PHYSICAL CONDITION |
| SATFRND |
FRIENDSHIPS |