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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...
Suicide and unintentional poisoning mortality trends in the United States, 1987-2006: two unrelated phenomena?Ian R H Rockett
Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
BMC Public Health 10:705. 2010..We compare suicide and poisoning mortality trends over two decades in a preliminary assessment of their independence and implications for suicide misclassification...- Discrepant comorbidity between minority and white suicides: a national multiple cause-of-death analysisIan R H Rockett
Injury Control Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
BMC Psychiatry 9:10. 2009..Self-report and records data for the general population indicate that proximate mental and physical health of minority suicides was at least as poor as that of white suicides... - Race/ethnicity and potential suicide misclassification: window on a minority suicide paradox?Ian R H Rockett
Department of Community Medicine and the Injury Control Research Center, PO Box 9190 West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
BMC Psychiatry 10:35. 2010..Analysis of this leading public health problem is complicated by undercounting. Despite persisting socioeconomic and health disparities, non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics register suicide rates less than half that of non-Hispanic Whites... 
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...- 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... - 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... - Media coverage as a risk factor in suicideS Stack
Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 57:238-40. 2003.... - Media coverage as a risk factor in suicideS Stack
Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Inj Prev 8:IV30-2. 2002.... - Suicide: a 15-year review of the sociological literature. Part II: modernization and social integration perspectivesS Stack
Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202 3622, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 30:163-76. 2000..Finally, further research on migration, a force lowering social integration, continued to tend to find a positive link to suicide... - Suicide: a 15-year review of the sociological literature. Part I: cultural and economic factorsS Stack
Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202 3622, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 30:145-62. 2000..Finally, the review notes patterns of continued stability in suicide research findings in areas such as racial differences and economic strain... - Heavy metal, religiosity, and suicide acceptabilityS Stack
Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48802, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 28:388-94. 1998..However, this relationship becomes nonsignificant once level of religiosity is controlled. Metal fans are low in religiosity, which contributes, in turn, to greater suicide acceptability... - 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... - The effect of marital integration on African American suicideS Stack
Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 26:405-14. 1996..Marital status may be less important for African Americans in suicide prevention because extended family ties are stronger for African Americans than Whites... - Blues fans and suicide acceptabilityS Stack
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Death Stud 24:223-31. 2000..Race-specific analyses found more support for the model for whites than for African Americans... - 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... - Gender and suicide risk among artists: a multivariate analysisS Stack
Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 26:374-9. 1996..The findings are related to both psychiatric and work-related stress factors that may place artists at risk of suicide as an occupational group... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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...