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Culture Greatly Influences Suicidal Behavior: Study

(U.S. News and World Report) UPDATED 2010-08-13
A psychologist at Colorado State University has found that people's culture has a great impact on their suicidal behavior because it writes "scripts" for self-destructive behaviors that men and women then follow. For example, Sylvia S. Canetto notes that in industrialized nations, suicide tends to be regarded as a masculine act that is "unnatural" for women. This may explain why more women in the United States consider and attempt suicide but have a lower rate of death from it. Completed suicide attempts, Canetto says, are the masculine way to "do" suicide, causing women who kill themselves to be considered more deviant than men.    Read full story >
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