The Social Nature of Male Suicide: A New Analytic Model

• DOI: 10.3149/jmh.1003.240
• Publication Date: 2011-11-10T04:01:39Z
• Authors: Daniel Coleman; Mark S. Kaplan; John T. Casey
• Keywords: Suicide -- Prevention -- Mathematical models; Social Work; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; 5. Gender equality; Mental and Social Health; Unemployment -- Psychological aspects; Psychiatry and Psychology; Suicide -- Risk factors; 3. Good health

A New Analytic ModelSuicide is one of the leading causes male mortality.In nearly every country in world, more males than females end their life by suicide.Previous research indicates male-specific risk factors include social such as being unmarried, low income, and unemployment.An analytic model suicide developed, proposing that traditional gender role creates a culturally-conditioned narrowing perceived options cognitive rigidity when under stress increases risk.Suicide prevention intervention require recognition high masculinity, situating individual explanations within broader context.Based on this theory few existing empirical studies, testable hypotheses are proposed.