The Roles of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity in Suicide
Authors : Stephanie Freitag, Yara Mekawi, Koree Badio, Ecclesia Holmes, Alix Youngblood, Dorian Lamis
Publication date : 2022/7/12
Book : Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention
Publisher : Springer
Description
Though suicide is one of the leading causes of death throughout the world, rates of suicide vary internationally on the basis of culture and ethnicity. In an effort to better understand suicidality, this chapter explores its phenomenology across different racial/ethnic groups in the United States. Additional variables that are considered include gender, age, social integration, and mental health, to name a few factors that have been shown to influence the onset of suicidality. This chapter includes a discussion of risk and protective factors through a culture-based lens, with commentary on the role of religiosity, individualism vs. collectivism, as well as other cultural and historical factors. As suicide remains challenging to accurately predict, it is imperative to explore the relation between variables that may uniquely affect individuals based on their cultural and ethnic identity. Hopefully, through exploring the interplay of these …
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