Comparing the changing suicide rate in Singapore with the rates in England/Wales and the USA, 1950-1985.
Whereas marriage and birth rates were significantly associated with the time-series annual suicide rate from 1950 to 1985 in England and Wales and birth rates were associated with the annual suicide rate in the USA, neither variable was significantly associated with the annual suicide rate in Singapore. It seems that different theories of suicide may have to be proposed in order to account for the societal suicide rate in Asian nations.
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Centre for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, New Jersey 08012.
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