Why women are less likely than men to commit suicide
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Why women are less likely than men to commit suicide.
Major depression forms the background of upwards of half of all suicides. Women are twice as likely as men to experience major depression, yet women are one fourth as likely as men to take their own lives. Current and past explanations of this paradox are built on androcentric assumptions that women are deficient in some way. The reverse may be true where suicide is concerned. Men value indepen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Comprehensive Psychiatry
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0010-440X
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-440x(98)90057-8