title: The effect of war on personal aggression.
abstract: The effect of war on the suicide rate and on the relative likelihood of suicide as a proportion of total personal aggression was examined in the United States for the time period from 1933 to 1986. Once unemployment was controlled for, no effect of war was detected.
authors.affiliation: Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, NJ 08012.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014478:Unemployment / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014857:Warfare