Suicide and the contemporary woman: Are male and female suicide rates converging?

Sex Roles ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 10 (7-8) ◽  
Author(s):  
ReneeHoffman Steffensmeier
Keyword(s):  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Suicide ◽  
Suicide Rates

Gender and the Risk of Violent Death in Canada

1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 858-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
Violent Death ◽  
Homicide Rates ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Suicide ◽  
Suicide Rates

In 23 nations from 1970 through 1984, no convergence was observed between the male and female suicide rates or between the male and female homicide rates.

Time-Series Studies of the French Suicide Rate Using Age-Adjusted Rates

1998 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-126
Author(s):  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Birth Rates ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Suicide ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
Time Series Studies ◽  
Age Adjusted Rates

For France from 1950 to 1985, divorce, marriage and birth rates predicted the crude and the age-adjusted male and female suicide rates identically.

Socioeconomic Change and Suicide

Crisis ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siobhán Lucey ◽  
Paul Corcoran ◽  
Helen S Keeley ◽  
Justin Brophy ◽  
Ella Arensman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Participation Rate ◽  
Marriage Rate ◽  
Independent Effect ◽  
Socioeconomic Indicators ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Suicide ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
Econometric Methods ◽  
Female Suicide Rate ◽  
Rate Female

Abstract. This ecological study examined the association between seven socioeconomic indicators (GDP, unemployment rate, female labor force participation rate, alcohol expenditure, marriage rate, percentage of births outside of marriage, and indictable crime rate) and total, male, and female rates of suicide and suicide plus undetermined death in Ireland during the period 1968-2000. Analysis of the data expressed as absolute values showed highly significant associations between the socioeconomic indicators and the total, male, and female suicide rates. However, these associations were explained by the strongly trended data. The trended nature of the data was removed by using year-to-year differences. Analysis of the first-differenced data showed that none of the socioeconomic indicators was associated with the total, male, or female suicide rates with the exception of indictable crime, which had a significant independent effect on the female suicide rate (coefficient = 2.0, p < .01) but not on suicide plus undetermined death. This study highlights the need to use econometric methods in time-trend analyses, the lack of age-sex specific exposure data in this area, and the challenge of understanding trends in suicide in their socioeconomic context.

Changing Age Patterns of U.S. Male and Female Suicide Rates, 1934-1983

1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark C. Stafford ◽  
Ralph A. Weisheit
Keyword(s):  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Suicide ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
Age Patterns

scholarly journals Suicide is Impacted by Culture: Gender Suicide Rates

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saxby Pridmore ◽  
Saxby Pridmore ◽  
William Pridmore
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Suicide ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
Male Suicide ◽  
Female Suicide Rate ◽  
The Stability

Objective: Over the last century mental disorder has been promoted as the universal suicide trigger. This view has been discredited and other triggers are being considered. The aim is to determine whether different regions have sustained different suicide rates for the genders male and female. In the affirmative case, as gender roles are culturally determined, an impact of culture on suicidal behaviour would be confirmed. Method: The WHO Suicide Rates data by country (2016) was examined over a 17-year period. This was examined for details of countries which had demonstrated higher female than male suicide. 6 were located and an additional 6 countries were selected with similar total suicide rates and a higher male than female suicide rate. The stability of higher female or male suicide rates was explored. Results: The 6 countries with higher female suicide rates continued this pattern of behaviour over 17 years – and the countries with higher male suicide rates also continued the established pattern. Conclusions: The persistence of different gender suicide rates in 12 countries over 17 years confirmed that culture can strongly impact suicidal behaviour.

Suicide in Immigrant Groups as a Function of Their Proportion in the Country

1994 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 994-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Suicide ◽  
Suicide Rates

Data from 1969 to 1973 in Canada indicated that the male and female suicide rates of immigrants from 22 nations were associated with the suicide rates in the home countries but not with the proportion of immigrants in Canada from the home countries.

Suicide in Québec, 1951–1986

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Death Rates ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Female Suicide ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
Male Suicide ◽  
Divorce Rates

Data from Fortier, et al. (1989) were reanalysed using multiple regression. While birth and divorce rates were significantly associated with both male and female suicide rates, unemployment rates and cirrhosis death rates were associated only with male suicide rates.

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