Item Detail
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27858
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4
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English
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Youth Suicide Rates and Mormon Religious Context : An Additional Empirical Analysis
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Summer 2016
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49
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2
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Cambridge, MA
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Dialogue Foundation
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25-43
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When there are multiple possible factors associated with a particular outcome (such as youth suicide rates), it is possible to control for these factors by using a statistical tool called "multivariate regression analysis." In essence, a regression analysis can identify the unique and independent effects of one factor on another while simultaneously controlling for the effect of all the other factors that could also be contributing. [...]
To perform this analysis, I examine the effect of the proportion of individuals in all US states and the District of Columbia that identify as Mormon on the per-capita rates (per 100,000) of suicide among youths in those states aged fifteen to nineteen in both 2009 and 2014, the latter being the latest year that such data are currently available from the Centers for Disease Control. I look at both 2009 and 2014 to see if there is a change during that five-year interval as the disconnect between LDS Church rhetoric and societal views on LGBT issues has arguably diverged more strongly in many ways during that time. [From the text]