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Domestic Violence, Separation, and Suicide in Young Men with Early Onset Alcoholism: Reanalyses of Murphy's Data
Author(s) -
Conner Kenneth R.,
Duberstein Paul R.,
Conwell Yeates
Publication year - 2000
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.2000.tb01101.x
Subject(s) - domestic violence , suicide prevention , psychiatry , psychology , injury prevention , poison control , occupational safety and health , human factors and ergonomics , medicine , demography , clinical psychology , medical emergency , pathology , sociology
Partner violence and partner separation at the time of completed suicide were investigated in 42 male alcoholics originally described by Murphy (1992). Half of the men had domestic violence histories. Partner‐violent men were younger, had an earlier age of onset of alcoholism, and were more likely to be separated from their partner at the time of death than partner‐nonviolent men. Loss of a close personal relationship, often a domestic partner, is common during the last year of life among alcoholic men completing suicide. Domestic violence appears to typify many of their domestic relationships, particularly among younger men and men with early onset alcoholism.