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D Lester

Publications and source records attributed to D Lester.

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PubMed1992

Suicide among Asian Americans and social deviancy.

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.

Black or African American↗
PubMed1992

Menninger's motives for suicide in the notes of completed and attempted suicides.

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.

Anger↗
PubMed1992

Testing Gibbs and Martin's theory of suicide.

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.

Divorce↗
PubMed1992

An exploratory study of funeral cost for suicides.

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.

Burial↗