Oksuzyan Anna, Drefahl Sven, Caputo Jennifer, Aradhya Siddartha
Chair of Demography and Health, School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany.
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
Eur J Popul. 2023 Mar 8;39(1):8. doi: 10.1007/s10680-023-09650-x.
Marriage is protective against suicide across most populations, including for persons of different ethnicities and immigrant backgrounds. However, the well-being benefits of marriage are contingent upon marital characteristics-such as conflict and quality-that may vary across spousal dyads with different immigration backgrounds. Leveraging Swedish register data, we compare suicide mortality among married persons on the basis of their and their spouse's immigration backgrounds. We find that relative to those in a native Swede-Swede union, Swedish men married to female immigrants and immigrant women married to native men are at higher risk of death by suicide, while immigrants of both genders who are married to someone from their birth country have a lower risk of suicide mortality. The findings support hypotheses about the strains that may be encountered by those who intermarry, as well as the potential selection of individuals into inter- and intra-ethnic marriages.
在大多数人群中，婚姻对自杀具有预防作用，包括不同种族和移民背景的人。然而，婚姻对幸福的益处取决于婚姻特征，如冲突和质量，而这些特征在具有不同移民背景的夫妻中可能会有所不同。利用瑞典的登记数据，我们根据已婚人士及其配偶的移民背景比较了自杀死亡率。我们发现，与瑞典本国夫妻相比，与女性移民结婚的瑞典男性和与本国男性结婚的移民女性自杀死亡风险更高，而与来自其出生国的人结婚的男女移民自杀死亡率较低。这些发现支持了关于异族通婚者可能面临的压力以及个人在族际和族内婚姻中的潜在选择的假设。
