@article{ref1,
title="Durkheim revisited: "Why do women kill themselves?"",
journal="Suicide and life-threatening behavior",
year="1979",
author="Johnson, K. K.",
volume="9",
number="3",
pages="145-153",
abstract="Durkheim divided suicide into four social types; egoistic, anomic, fatalistic, and altruistic assigning the first two to modern, western society while relegating the last two to pre-industrial social orders. However, contemporary studies of female suicidal behavior and depression show that such women exhibit personality characteristics of low self-esteem, passivity, dependence and living vicariously for others which correspond to the behavioral indices of impersonalism, submissiveness, passivity, and obedience that produce the lack of individuation characteristic of Durkheim's altruistic/fatalistic suicide categories. On this basis, the author suggests that altruistic/fatalistic suicide may even in the modern world be relevant to the explanation of female suicidal behavior, a hypothesis which, if true, would support the contention that "men and women inhibit different social worlds."",
language="",
issn="0363-0234",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}