metal_health {discovr}R Documentation

Metal health

Description

A dataset from Field, A. P. (2026). Discovering statistics using R and RStudio (2nd ed.). London: Sage.

Usage

metal_health

Format

A tibble with 2506 rows and 2 variables.

Details

Lacourse et al. (2001) conducted a study to see whether suicide risk was related to listening to heavy metal music. They devised a scale to measure preference for bands falling into the category of heavy metal. This scale included heavy metal bands (Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden), speed metal bands (Slayer, Metallica), death/black metal bands (Obituary, Burzum) and gothic bands (Marilyn Manson, Sisters of Mercy). They then used this (and other variables) as predictors of suicide risk based on a scale measuring suicidal ideation etc. These data are from a fictitious replication. There are two variables representing scores on the scales described above:

Source

www.discovr.rocks/csv/metal_health.csv

References


[Package discovr version 0.2.2 Index]