Citation

Hassan R, Carr J. Aust. N. Zeal. J. Psychiatry 1989; 23(2): 226-234.

Affiliation

Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA.

Comment In:

Aust N Z J Psychiatry 1989;.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2673198

Abstract

This paper examines the suicide trends in Australia from a sociological perspective using a selected number of sociological variables. Our aim is not to minimize the importance of psychogenic factors in suicide but to highlight its sociological aspects. The analysis of suicide trends shows that the overall suicide rate in Australia has remained fairly stable over the past one hundred years. This outward stability, however, camouflages some important internal changes in the suicide trends in Australian society. The paper examines some of these trends and provides a profile of some of the possible sociological factors which appear to have influenced the suicide rates of men and women in Australian society between 1880 and 1985.

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