Biomedical subjects
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The suicide rates of the American states in 1918-1922 were only weakly associated with the rates in 1980. The mean rate had not changed by 1980, but the standard deviation of the rates had decreased.
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As with African-Americans, the suicide rates of Chinese-Americans were lower in states where there were many Chinese. Suicide rates of Japanese and Filipinos did not fit this pattern.
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The suicide rates of 14 nations were examined for 1875, 1952, 1962, 1975, and 1986 and found to have increased over this period. There was no change in the dispersions of the suicide rates over the years.
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Brevard, Lester, and Yang in 1990, studying Menninger's motives for suicide, reported more evidence for the wish to be killed (i.e., self-blame or self-punishment) in suicide notes for completed suicides than in parasuicide notes for attempted suicide; however, they did not control for age and sex. A comparison of notes written by completed and attempted suicides that controlled for age and sex showed no differences in the presence of content which reflected Menninger's three motives for suicide, including the wish to be killed.
Over 32 nations, status integration correlated more strongly with suicide rates than two other social variables. Over 30 states of the United States of America, status integration performed worse than the percent born out-of-state and better than the divorce rates.
Funeral cost was less for younger people and for cremation. Among 156 funerals examined, after matching for sex, age, and cremation/burial, the funerals of a small sample of 6 suicides cost less than those of the controls.
Scores on a measure of self-defeating personality were associated with depression and suicidal preoccupation in a sample of 58 college students.
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