التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Gender Differences in Suicide Risk by Socio-Demographic Factors in Hong Kong. |
| المؤلفون: |
Kwan, Y. K., Ip, W. C., Kwan, P. |
| المصدر: |
Death Studies; Sep2005, Vol. 29 Issue 7, p645-663, 19p, 5 Charts |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
SUICIDE, SUICIDAL behavior, OFFENSES against the person, GENDER differences (Psychology) |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
CHINA, HONG Kong (China) |
| مستخلص: |
Some peculiarly low male-to-female suicide ratios have been reported in the Far Eastern populations. This article attempts to investigate whether there are gender differences in suicide risk by socio-demographic factors in Hong Kong, and hereby to explain the low male-to-female suicide ratios. The effects of marital status, duration-of-residence, and occupational status on suicide are first studied by periodic suicide rates in 1990–1992, and 2000–2002, then by Poisson regression. Some interesting results are found: Unlike most findings elsewhere, migration in Hong Kong did not induce suicide; occupational status was negatively related to suicide only for men but not for women; the particularly low male-to-female suicide ratio was not due to a larger protection from marriage for men than for women as reported in the literature, but very probably to a very high suicide rate for the non-working population. The authors suggest some plausible explanations of the findings and hence further research to be conducted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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