White women are three times more likely to commit suicide than black women. Can you believe this alarming Statistic?
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Race, Sex, and Suicide
Among women, whites are most likely to end their own lives. Researchers recently examined the medical records of female suicide victims from North Carolina between 1989 and 1993. They found that race was an unexpected risk factor.
By:Colin Allen
White women are three times more likely to commit suicide than black women. Researchers recently examined the medical records of female suicide victims from North Carolina between 1989 and 1993. They found that race was an unexpected risk factor.
The study's goal was to learn the causes of suicide, but the researchers concluded that medical and police records were too vague. Even when researchers interviewed law enforcement officers about all 177 cases of suicide in 1993, there was not enough information to fully understand the problem.
While her study cannot explain the race difference, lead author Carol Runyon, Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, encourages law enforcement officials to keep better track of risk factors, so other suicides may be averted.
Suicide "may have something to do with what people consider unbearable," says Henry Seiden, Ph.D., the author of Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide. "Women [in ethnic minorities] may be used to living with much lower expectations." Thus they may be less suicidal. He notes that it is much more difficult to find information on attempted suicides. It could be that white women are more successful at their attempts.
Other risk factors, known from previous studies, were confirmed in this research. A history of mental illness, previous suicide attempts and domestic abuse all remain factors.
The study appears in the current issue of Injury Prevention.
Race, Sex, and Suicide
Among women, whites are most likely to end their own lives. Researchers recently examined the medical records of female suicide victims from North Carolina between 1989 and 1993. They found that race was an unexpected risk factor.
By:Colin Allen
White women are three times more likely to commit suicide than black women. Researchers recently examined the medical records of female suicide victims from North Carolina between 1989 and 1993. They found that race was an unexpected risk factor.
The study's goal was to learn the causes of suicide, but the researchers concluded that medical and police records were too vague. Even when researchers interviewed law enforcement officers about all 177 cases of suicide in 1993, there was not enough information to fully understand the problem.
While her study cannot explain the race difference, lead author Carol Runyon, Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, encourages law enforcement officials to keep better track of risk factors, so other suicides may be averted.
Suicide "may have something to do with what people consider unbearable," says Henry Seiden, Ph.D., the author of Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide. "Women [in ethnic minorities] may be used to living with much lower expectations." Thus they may be less suicidal. He notes that it is much more difficult to find information on attempted suicides. It could be that white women are more successful at their attempts.
Other risk factors, known from previous studies, were confirmed in this research. A history of mental illness, previous suicide attempts and domestic abuse all remain factors.
The study appears in the current issue of Injury Prevention.
....lord have mercy...
Doc Luv (lol)..........
I remember reading a study a while ago about suicides off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The statistic was that there was a much higher percentage of Catholics jumping off the bay side of the bridge, and a higher percentage of non-Catholics jumping off the ocean side. There were all these psychological analysts talking on and on about how Catholics have a subconscious desire to return to the womb, hence they jump toward the enclosed bay, while non-Catholics want to be set free, hence they jump toward the open ocean.
A while later, someone realized that the areas south of the bridge had a concentration of Catholic neighborhoods, while there were very few Catholics living north of the bridge. If you drive onto the bridge from the south, you are on the Bay side; from the north, you are on the Ocean side. So after all that, they realized that deep seated religious beliefs had nothing to do with it - it was just a matter of geography.
I just am always wary of drawing general conclusions from limited statistics.
What does that have to do with white woman commiting suicide?
The article is stating the exact opposite of what you are saying.
Thank you for your narrow and negative view of black women. Thank you.
"Even when researchers interviewed law enforcement officers about all 177 cases of suicide in 1993, there was not enough information to fully understand the problem."
A further study looking into the background of the individuals would give a better look into cause and a firmer statistical outcome.
I don't agree that black women have lower expectations? That just seems like a judgement that is very broad.
very insightful
I think culturally African-American women to generalize have had to handle adversity more and are stronger. Same can be said for Native and Chicana,, they have to be to survive, it is sad, but it is how it is.
...I wonder it's the same with men,
I have know this information for years. It has nothing to do with black women having low expectation, I think that is a racist attitude perpetuated into our society. I believe it has more to do with our history of struggle and our high level of confronting personal struggles.
EDIT: I'M KIDDING. FUCK OFF.
I'm talking CEO's and desk jobs that keep you at work for way too many hours. Think about it a little harder than you're thinking already. If you think I'm being racist then you're not thinking hard enough.
I used to work in a mortgage bank and it was very diverse.
I mean the black guys worked just as many hours as the white guys.
I think you must come from a place where there is not much diversity, I mean to think the way you are thinking.