Aspects and items | Active persistent death wish, no severe illness N = 155 (0.7% of 21,294) | Passive persistent death wish, no severe illness N = 93 (0.4% of 21,294) | Persistent death wish (passive/active nature unknown), no severe illness N = 19 (< 0.1% of 21,294) | Total group “Persistent death wish, no severe illness” (PDW-NSI) N = 267 (1.25% of 21,294) | Answer “No” to differentiation question: Does the description “seeing no future for oneself, longing for death, while not being severely ill” apply to you? N = 20,883 (97.8% of 21,294) | P-value PDW-NSI group vs. Diff. question = No | P-value Active vs. Passive |
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Gender | |||||||
Female | 87 (56.1) | 50 (53.8) | 12 (63.2) | 149 (55.8) | 10,500 (50.3) | 0.074 | 0.792 |
Male | 68 (43.9) | 43 (46.2) | 7 (36.8) | 118 (44.2) | 10,383 (49.7) | ||
Age (years) | |||||||
Median (Q1-Q3) | 64 (60–72) | 67 (60.5–74) | 68 (61–75) | 65 (60–73) | 65 (60–72) | 0.161 | 0.267 |
55–59 | 37 (23.9) | 18 (19.4) | 3 (15.8) | 58 (21.7) | 5119 (24.5) | ||
60–64 | 44 (28.4) | 19 (20.4) | 3 (15.8) | 66 (24.7) | 4569 (21.9) | ||
65–69 | 21 (13.5) | 19 (20.4) | 6 (31.6) | 46 (17.2) | 4156 (19.9) | ||
70–74 | 23 (14.8) | 16 (17.2) | 2 (10.5) | 41 (15.4) | 3977 (19.0) | ||
75–79 | 16 (10.3) | 12 (12.9) | 4 (21.1) | 32 (12.0) | 1796 (8.6) | ||
80–84 | 8 (5.2) | 6 (6.5) | 0 (0.0) | 14 (5.2) | 890 (4.3) | ||
85–89 | 4 (2.6) | 3 (3.2) | 1 (5.3) | 8 (3.0) | 320 (1.5) | ||
90–94 | 2 (1.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.7) | 51 (0.2) | ||
95–99 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (< 0.1) | ||
Educational attainmenta | |||||||
Low | 54 (34.8) | 37 (39.8) | 7 (36.8) | 98 (36.7) | 7018 (33.6) | 0.288b | 0.507c |
Middle | 59 (38.1) | 27 (29.0) | 11 (57.9) | 97 (36.3) | 7554 (36.2) | ||
High | 41 (26.5) | 27 (29.0) | 1 (5.3) | 69 (25.8) | 6213 (29.8) | ||
Unknown | 1 (0.6) | 2 (2.2) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (1.1) | 98 (0.5) | ||
Worldviewd | |||||||
Religious worldview | 52 (31.9) | 45 (45.0) | 9 (45.0) | 106 (37.5) | 517 (49.1) | 0.002 | 0.023 |
Non-religious worldview | 49 (30.1) | 27 (27.0) | 5 (25.0) | 81 (28.6) | 200 (19.0) | 0.000 | 0.776 |
Worldview, religiousness unknown | 8 (4.9) | 3 (3.0) | 0 (0.0) | 11 (3.9) | 44 (4.2) | 1.000 | 0.544 |
No worldview | 54 (33.1) | 25 (25.0) | 6 (30.0) | 85 (30.0) | 293 (27.8) | 0.327 | 0.208 |
Number of childrene | |||||||
0 | 31 (26.5) | 20 (26.7) | 5 (35.7) | 56 (27.2) | 124 (16.3) | 0.000 | 0.734 |
1 | 14 (12.0) | 14 (18.7) | 1 (7.1) | 29 (14.1) | 96 (12.6) | ||
2 | 56 (47.9) | 29 (38.7) | 7 (50.0) | 92 (44.7) | 329 (43.1) | ||
3 or more | 16 (13.7) | 12 (16.0) | 1 (7.1) | 29 (14.1) | 214 (28.0) | ||
Household size (number of persons) | |||||||
1 | 84 (54.2) | 46 (49.5) | 9 (47.4) | 139 (52.1) | 5259 (25.2) | 0.000 | 0.504 |
2 | 58 (37.4) | 39 (41.9) | 10 (52.6) | 107 (40.1) | 12,480 (59.8) | ||
3 or more | 13 (8.4) | 8 (8.6) | 0 (0.0) | 21 (7.9) | 3144 (15.1) | ||
Social classf | |||||||
Low | 78 (50.3) | 49 (52.7) | 15 (78.9) | 142 (53.2) | 8406 (40.3) | 0.000 | 0.934 |
Middle | 26 (16.8) | 12 (12.9) | 0 (0.0) | 38 (14.2) | 3171 (15.2) | ||
High | 51 (32.9) | 32 (34.4) | 4 (21.1) | 87 (32.6) | 9306 (44.6) | ||
Urbanizationg | |||||||
Very high | 39 (25.2) | 35 (37.6) | 3 (15.8) | 77 (28.8) | 3829 (18.3)h | 0.001 | 0.187 |
High | 52 (33.5) | 23 (24.7) | 8 (42.1) | 83 (31.1) | 7290 (34.9) | ||
Moderate | 26 (16.8) | 15 (16.1) | 4 (21.1) | 45 (16.9) | 3813 (18.3) | ||
Low | 28 (18.1) | 12 (12.9) | 3 (15.8) | 43 (16.1) | 4223 (20.2) | ||
None | 10 (6.5) | 8 (8.6) | 1 (5.3) | 19 (7.1) | 1722 (8.2) |