title: National income, life satisfaction, and male-female suicide ratio in industrialised countries.
abstract: The relationships between gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, life satisfaction, and male-female suicide ratio were analyzed for 25 industrialized countries. GDP per capita was the strongest correlate of male-female suicide ratio even when life satisfaction was controlled using partial correlations. Life satisfaction correlated significantly with GDP per capita but not with suicide rates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. esma@metu.edu.tr
authors.forename: Esma
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gaygisiz
mesh_terms: D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D019049:Developed Countries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D059066:Gross Domestic Product / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008297:Male; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D012744:Sex Ratio; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*