Motives for suicide in suicide notes from women and men.
Suicide notes written by 16 adult women and 16 men were evaluated by 16 nonprofessional adult judges with regard to love or work problems as suicide motives. Consistent with current theory on gender and suicidal behavior, women and men did not differ in love or work motives.
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Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80523, USA.
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D000328:Adult; D015709:Correspondence as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*