Causal analyses of inequality, sociopathological behaviors and social capital

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In this research, we conducted an interviewing survey to elucidate relationships between sociopathological phenomena and social capital. 1800 adults living in Hyougo prefecture were randomly sampled and 1063 people answered. The data from this survey provided three new insights. 1) The suicide rates related closely to people's satisfaction, the amount of support network and trust for neighborhood. 2) The effects of these three main causal variables on the suicide rates differed by a population size of each area. 3) In metropolitan areas, economical factors strongly affected the suicide rate, while a neighborhood relationship played a main role in local areas.