The Quiet Revolution and the Sex Differential in Quebec's Suicide Rates: 1931-1986

Krull, Catherine; Trovato, Frank

doi:10.1093/sf/72.4.1121

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“…Durkheim takes gender into consideration only within the realm of integration, and his analysis is primarily limited to the institution of marriage. Durkheim states that women are not as influenced by broader social context, because “she is much less involved than he is in collective life” ([1897] 2006:331); and many sociological studies have focused on societal integration through marriage for women (e.g., Krul and Travato 1994; Pampel 1998). However, we contend that for Durkheim’s larger argument to hold, the sociological study of suicide must consider gender sui generis as a regulating system in society.…”

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“…He finds that as women’s labor force participation increases and marital stability decreases, women experience an increase in suicide, so that the sex differential in suicide rates drops; but then, as female workforce participation continues to escalate, women’s rates of suicide begin to decline. Krull and Travato (1994) examine changes in suicide in Quebec and find that changes in divorce, childlessness, irreligiosity, and unemployment affect suicide rates for men, while only divorce affects suicide rates for women. Rahav and colleagues (2006) use a similar approach to examine gender differences in alcohol use across countries.…”

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Gendered Contexts

2015

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We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (13,186 respondents in 30 states) to develop a unique state-level measure of the gendered context, in order to examine the influence of gender normative attitudes and behaviors on state rates of suicidal ideation and individual-level suicidal ideation for female and male youth (aged 13 to 22). The findings demonstrate the negative consequences for youth, especially females who report feminine-typical traits, who live in contexts defined by restrictive gender norms at both the ecological and individual levels. This study points to the importance of fatalistic suicide for female youth and suggests possible mechanisms to explain this association.

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“…It was not until the late 1940s and early fifties that this province would experience rapid industrialization, intensifying during the "quiet revolution" of the 1960s. This "revolution represented more than economic transformation; it also encompassed radical shifts in value orientations in the population (see Bergeron, 1975;Krull and Trovato, 1994;Thomson, 1984;Gratton, 1992;Guindon, 1988 …”

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Narrowing sex differences in life expectancy: regional variations, 1971-1991

Trovato

Lalu

2001

CSP

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A number of industrialized nations have recently experienced some degrees of constriction in their long-standing sex differentials in life expectancy at birth. In this study we examine this phenomenon in the context of Canada's regions between 1971 and 1991: Atlantic (Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island); Quebec, Ontario, and the West (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon and Northwest Territories). Decomposition analysis based on multiple decrement life tables is applied to address three questions: (1) Are there regional differentials in the degree of narrowing in the sex gap in life expectancy? (2) What is the relative contribution of major causes of death to observed sex differences in average length of life within and across regions? (3) How do the contributions of cause-of-death components vary across regions to either widen or narrow the sex gap in survival? It is shown that the magnitude of the sex gap is not uniform across the regions, though the differences are not large. The most important contributors to a narrowing of the sex gap in life expectancy are heart disease and external types of mortality (i.e., accidents, violence, and suicide), followed by lung cancer and other types of chronic conditions. In substantive terms these results indicate that over time men have been making sufficient gains in these causes of death as to narrow some of the gender gap in overall survival. Regions show similarity in these effects.

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“…Concomitantly, Quebec experienced a downturn in religiosity, an increase in divorce, and, after the early 1970s, a rise in suicide rates. According to sociological descriptions, these cultural changes, and the resulting increased incidence of suicide, reflect a shift from collectivist, traditional values to individualistic ones (Krull and Trovato 1994). In addition, the history of Quebec since the first GSS has been one of profound and policy-mediated transformation and struggle-along linguistic lines and related to cultural self-determination and social identity.…”

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“…Figure 3 shows the results of splitting the sample along various demographic lines to test hypotheses about who and what accounts for the large trend in SWL differences. Krull andTrovato (1994, 1121) argued that since the 1950s, "modernization in Quebec has been more detrimental to men than to women." Figure 3(a) shows SWL trajectories separately for men and women in order to address the possibility that men (or young men in particular) account for the trend.…”

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The Quebec Convergence and Canadian Life Satisfaction, 1985–2008

Barrington‐Leigh

2013

Canadian Public Policy

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De plus en plus de sondages, réalisés par des gouvernements ou des entreprises privées, tentent de mesurer la satisfaction face à la vie, cette mesure étant obtenue grâce à des instruments d'auto-évaluation. Au Canada, de tels sondages n'ont pas été faits de façon systématique au fil des ans, mais les données recueillies depuis 1985, de même que des sondages récents réalisés plusieurs fois selon une même structure, facilitent beaucoup l'analyse que nous pouvons maintenant faire de l'évolution de cette satisfaction dans les diverses régions du pays. Dans cet article, je montre que, depuis 25 ans, la satisfaction face à la vie s'est beaucoup accrue au Québec quand on compare cette province au reste du Canada, et que l'ampleur de cette hausse du bienêtre subjectif est comparable à l'effet qu'aurait la multiplication par trois du revenu moyen des ménages.Mots clés : Canada, Québec, bien-être subjectif, bonheur, Révolution tranquille, revenu Self-reported life satisfaction is increasingly measured in government and private surveys around the world. In Canada, life satisfaction questions have not been asked in a consistent manner over time, but the accumulated set of data since 1985, along with recent surveys with repeated structure, now facilitates an analysis of regional changes. Those two and a half decades reveal a significant increase in life satisfaction in the province of Quebec as compared with the rest of Canada. The scale of this increase in well-being is comparable to the imputed effect of more than a trebling of mean household income.

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The Quiet Revolution and the Sex Differential in Quebec's Suicide Rates: 1931-1986

Cited by 28 publications

References 36 publications

Gendered Contexts

Gendered Contexts

Narrowing sex differences in life expectancy: regional variations, 1971-1991

The Quebec Convergence and Canadian Life Satisfaction, 1985–2008

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