Pritchard C
Department of Social Work Studies, University of Southampton, UK.
Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1996 May;93(5):362-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1996.tb10661.x.
Throughout the developed world suicide is predominantly associated with psychiatric disorders and substance misuse. The main social factors are age, as suicide increases with each decade, and gender, as suicide is more frequent among men than women, and proportionately more young men die than their female peers. An analysis of suicide in the People's Republic of China found that the profile was the opposite to that reported in the rest of the world, as more female subjects kill themselves than males, particularly younger women. Also, unlike the situation in other countries, suicide occurred more often in rural than in urban areas. It is argued that the Chinese data provide evidence of a greater cultural influence upon suicide rates than had previously been realized.
在整个发达国家，自杀主要与精神疾病和药物滥用有关。主要的社会因素是年龄，因为自杀率每十年就会上升，还有性别，因为男性自杀比女性更频繁，而且按比例计算，年轻男性死亡的人数比同龄女性更多。对中华人民共和国自杀情况的一项分析发现，其情况与世界其他地区报告的情况相反，因为自杀的女性比男性多，尤其是年轻女性。此外，与其他国家的情况不同，自杀在农村地区比城市地区更频繁发生。有人认为，中国的数据证明文化对自杀率的影响比以前意识到的更大。
