Culture matters in suicidal behavior patterns and prevention, psychologist says

Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 17:14 in Psychology & Sociology

Women and girls in the United States consider and engage in suicidal behavior more often than men and boys, but die of suicide at lower rate - a gender paradox enabled by U.S. cultural norms of gender and suicidal behavior, according to a psychologist who spoke Thursday at the 118th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.

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