Gender differences in risk factors for suicide in Denmark

Qin, Ping; Agerbo, Esben; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels; Eriksson, Tor; Mortensen, Preben Bo

doi:10.1192/bjp.177.6.546

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“…According to Beautrais (2000), one the strongest predictors of suicide is psychopathology. Marriage and feelings of responsibility to the family serve as protective factors against suicide (Malone et al, 2000;Qin, Agerbo, Westergård-Nielsen, Eriksson, & Mortensen, 2000).…”

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Victim, perpetrator, and offense characteristics in filicide and filicide–suicide

Debowska

Boduszek

Dhingra

2015

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical review of most recent studies of parental and stepparental filicide. A detailed review of the literature revealed the importance of certain demographic, environmental, and psychosocial factors in the commission of child homicide.Our findings indicate that filicides perpetrated by genetic parents and stepparents differ considerably in terms of underlying motivational factors. Data in the literature suggest that biological parents are more likely to choose methods of killing which produce quick and painless death, whereas stepparents frequently kill their wards by beating. Research results demonstrate the victims of maternal filicides to be significantly younger than the victims of paternal filicides. Additionally, filicide-suicide is most often associated with parental psychopathology. Genetic fathers are at the greatest risk of death by suicide after the commission of familicide. These findings are discussed in relation to theoretical frameworks explaining the occurrence of child murder. Further, limitations of reviewed studies and directions for future research are presented.

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Section: 3filicide Followed By Suicidementioning

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Victim, perpetrator, and offense characteristics in filicide and filicide–suicide

Debowska

Boduszek

Dhingra

2015

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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“…Past research indicates that unemployment has a stronger in-fluence on male suicide than female suicide (Berk et al, 2006;Blakely et al, 2003;Chan, Yip, Wong, & Chen, 2007;Kuroki, 2010;Preti & Miotto, 1999;Pritchard, 1992;Qin, Mortensen, Agerbo, Westergard-Nielsen, & Eriksson, 2000). However, other research casts some doubt on these gender-specific findings (Chen et al, 2010;Kposowa, 2001).…”

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Social-Environmental Factors and Suicide Mortality: A Narrative Review of over 200 Articles

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Hjelmeland²,

Arensman³

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Suicide mortality in a population has long been thought to be sensitive to social, economic and cultural contexts. This review examined research on the relationship between social-environmental variables and suicide mortality published over a ten-year period. The main areas covered in the review included: the economy and income, unemployment, relationship status, fertility and birth rates, female participation in the workforce, religion, migration, location of residence, modernisation, media reporting, alcohol, and access to suicide methods. Results of the review indicated that rates of suicide mortality (deaths per 100,000 in a population) were sensitive to a wide range of social factors. There were relatively stable associations noted between divorce and unemployment with suicide mortality, while many of the reported associations between suicide mortality and other social variables (such as religion, fertility and female participation in the workforce) were influenced by contextual factors and time. These findings indicate the importance of considering the relationship between social factors and suicide as dynamic phenomena.

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“…In most countries, suicide rate in males is higher than that in females (Pampel, 1998;Hawton, 2000). Although mental disorders based on biological and genetic gender differences are one of the most prominent causes of suicide (Qin et al, 2000;Altemus, 2006;WHO, 2013a), socio-economic factors linked to changes in gender roles could also explain the gender different changes in suicide with increasing male suicide and decreasing female suicide (Hawton, 2000;Zhang et al, 2005;Dombrovski et al, 2008;Karch, 2011). The impacts of economic indices, such as income, bankrupt, economic inequality (Neumayer, 2003;West, 2003;Shah et al, 2009), and social indicators, including divorce, birthrate, family size, female labor force participation, on suicide have been broadly studied (Burr et al, 1997;Chuang et al, 1997;Neumayer, 2003).…”

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“…The studies on gender differences of suicide could generate information which can guide clinical practice and bring prevention strategies effective for both genders (Qin et al, 2000;Hawton, 2000) and demonstrate the broad implications of public health indeed. Health, Labor, and Welfare, 2013).…”

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Gender differences of suicide in Japan, 1947–2010

Liu

Zhang

Cho

et al. 2013

Journal of Affective Disorders

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Gender differences in risk factors for suicide in Denmark

Abstract: Risk factors for suicide differed by gender and gender differences could not be explained by differential exposure to known risk factors.

Cited by 313 publications

References 20 publications

Victim, perpetrator, and offense characteristics in filicide and filicide–suicide

Victim, perpetrator, and offense characteristics in filicide and filicide–suicide

Social-Environmental Factors and Suicide Mortality: A Narrative Review of over 200 Articles

Gender differences of suicide in Japan, 1947–2010

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