Motives for Suicide-A Study of Australian Suicide Notes

Analysis of a large sample of suicide notes from 262 suicides in Australia found that men less often had escape from pain as a motive for their suicides and more often had love/romantic problems. The suicides of older persons were more often motivated by escape from pain and less often had love/roma...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Crisis : the journal of crisis intervention and suicide prevention 2004, Vol.25 (1), p.33-34
Hauptverfasser:	Lester, David, Wood, Priscilla, Williams, Christopher, Haines, Janet
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Age Differences Australia - epidemiology Correspondence as Topic Female Human Human Sex Differences Humans Male Messages Motivation Suicide Suicide - psychology Suicide - statistics & numerical data
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Zusammenfassung:	Analysis of a large sample of suicide notes from 262 suicides in Australia found that men less often had escape from pain as a motive for their suicides and more often had love/romantic problems. The suicides of older persons were more often motivated by escape from pain and less often had love/romantic problems.
ISSN:	0227-5910 2151-2396
DOI:	10.1027/0227-5910.25.1.33