79 attempted suicides in the Spring were found to be less often married, more often agnostics, and more often living with siblings or in institutions than were 165 attempted suicides in other seasons. These results were seen as lending partial support to Durkheim's notion that suicides in the Spring might be more motivated by anomie than suicides at other times of the year.
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