McIntosh J L, Jewell B L
Suicide Life Threat Behav. 1986 Spring;16(1):16-27. doi: 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1986.tb00717.x.
The recent suicide literature increasingly has contained statements suggesting that the differences in completed suicide between the sexes are lessening. A compilation of official suicide data for 1933-1980 verifies such a trend from the 1950s through 1971. However, increased differences (as measured by the ratio of male to female rates) were consistently observed from 1971 to 1980. These trends were found for data for the nation, for whites and nonwhites, for numbers of suicides, for crude rates, and for age-adjusted rates. Decreased sex differences were obtained for those 35-44, 45-54, 55-64, and for 65+ years of age, but increased sex differences were observed for those aged 15-24 and 25-34. Possible explanations for these findings are presented.
近期的自杀文献越来越多地包含一些说法，表明男女之间自杀既遂率的差异正在缩小。一份1933年至1980年官方自杀数据汇编证实了从20世纪50年代到1971年的这一趋势。然而，在1971年至1980年期间，始终观察到差异增大（以男女比率衡量）。这些趋势在全国数据、白人和非白人数据、自杀人数、粗率以及年龄调整率中均有发现。35 - 44岁、45 - 54岁、55 - 64岁以及65岁及以上人群的性别差异减小，但15 - 24岁和25 - 34岁人群的性别差异增大。文中给出了这些研究结果的可能解释。
