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The Adolescent Suicide Problem
Author(s) -
Maris Ronald
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1985.tb00644.x
Subject(s) - suicide prevention , poison control , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , suicide rates , occupational safety and health , psychology , adolescent suicide , medical emergency , demography , psychiatry , medicine , gerontology , sociology , pathology
The suicide rate of young people in the United States rose 237 percent between 1960 and 1980. This paper addresses three related issues. First, is this change an epidemic or an artifact? Second, what is there about adolescence as a life‐stage in modern society that makes it stressful, even suicide producing? Finally, what are the distinctive traits of the lifestyles or careers of a random sample of young Chicago suicides?