Gloomy Sunday: did the "Hungarian suicide song" really create a suicide epidemic?Steven Stack
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Omega (Westport) 56:349-58. 2007
..Further research is needed on art forms, such as feature films, paintings, novels, and music that portray suicides in order to identify the conditions under which the triggering of suicides occurs...
Opera subculture and suicide for honorSteven Stack
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Death Stud 26:431-7. 2002
..Only two variables, religiosity and education, are more closely related to suicide acceptability than opera fanship. These are the first empirical results on the subject of opera and suicide acceptability...
Social and racial correlates of Russian rouletteSteven Stack
Department of Psychiatry, Wayne State University, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 38:436-41. 2008
..Russian roulette victims were entirely male, significantly younger, and less apt to be married than the control group...
Suicide by cop in film and society: dangerousness, depression, and justiceSteven Stack
Department of Psychiatry and Criminology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 42:359-76. 2012
..While such media distortions can be profitable and entertain the audience, they also contribute to public misunderstandings of the nature of deviance and hinder the development of effective suicide and violence prevention programs...
The effect of survivalism--self-expressionism culture on black male suicide acceptability: a cross-national analysisSteven Stack
Department of Psychiatry, 3258 Faculty Administration Building, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48098, USA
Soc Sci Med 72:1211-8. 2011
..These new found associations compliment the impact of a standard predictor, religiosity, on suicide acceptability...
Lethal locations: an application of opportunity theory to motel suicide, a research noteIra M Wasserman
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
Death Stud 32:757-67. 2008
..4), hanging as a suicide method (OR = 3.0), and substance abuse (OR = 2.6). The model explained 24% of the variance in location of suicide. Opportunity theory is utilized to explain why location influences the probability of a suicide...
Gender and suicide risk: the role of wound siteSteven Stack
Center for Suicide Research, 6341 Parkview Drive, Troy, Michigan 48098, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 39:13-20. 2009
..The findings are consistent with the notion that women are more concerned than men with facial disfigurement, and that women have a lower desire to die than men...
Economic strain and suicide risk: a qualitative analysisSteven Stack
Center for Suicide Research, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 37:103-12. 2007
..Unemployment combined with an anticipated eviction from one's home is recommended as a particular point of departure for future work...
Societal economic costs and benefits from death: another lookSteven Stack
Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, 2305 Faculty Administration Building, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Death Stud 31:363-72. 2007
..Future work is needed to adjust lost earnings for the lower occupational status of suicides; this is another reason why Yang and Lester may be underestimating cost savings from suicide...
Music and suicidality: a quantitative review and extensionSteven Stack
Department of Psychiatry and Criminology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 42:654-71. 2012
..Experimental research is needed with a control group of songs from an alternative genre with low suicidogenic content...
Body mass and suicide riskSteven Stack
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Crisis 28:46-7. 2007
..For males, the BMI was not significantly related to suicide risk either at the bivariate or multivariate levels of analysis. The best predictors of suicide were living alone for females, and alcohol abuse for males...
Race and method of suicide: culture and opportunitySteven Stack
Department of Sociology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Arch Suicide Res 9:57-68. 2005
..24 times more likely than Caucasians to choose violent methods of suicide. Although they are less likely to own firearms, African Americans are more likely than Caucasians to choose violent methods of suicide...
Suicide in the media: a quantitative review of studies based on non-fictional storiesSteven Stack
Center for Suicide Research, Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 35:121-33. 2005
..The full logistic regression model correctly classified 77.3% of the findings from the 55 studies. Methodological differences among studies are associated with discrepancies in their results...
The age structures and marital status differences of married and not married male suicide rates: 12 developed countriesPhillips Cutright
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Arch Suicide Res 10:365-82. 2006
..These regression equations generate predicted suicide rates and these predicted rates are then used to see if they account for the observed age structures of married and not married men. They do in 19 of 24 tests...
Marital status integration, suicide disapproval, and societal integration as explanations of marital status differences in female age-specific suicide ratesPhillips Cutright
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 37:715-24. 2007
..The results provide the strongest support for the marital status integration theory and consistent support for the social integration perspective. There is also mixed support for the cultural disapproval of suicide hypothesis...
Mass homicide and suicide deadliness and outcomeDavid Lester
Psychology Program, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona 08240 0195, USA
Crisis 26:184-7. 2005
..Those rampage killers who completed suicide were less likely to be judged schizophrenic and more likely to be killing present or former co-workers...
The deadliness of mass murderersDavid Lester
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, 08240-0195, USA
Psychol Rep 94:1404. 2004
..The death toll for mass murders was higher when the murderer committed suicide and when the incident was elsewhere than the Americas and Europe...
Suicide-associated comorbidity among US males and females: a multiple cause-of-death analysisIan R H Rockett
Injury Control Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506 9190, USA
Inj Prev 13:311-5. 2007
..To describe physical and mental comorbidity among male and female suicides in the US. This research replicates a seminal Australian study, which permits inference on comparative cause-of-death data quality...