@article{ref1,
title="Education and risk of suicide: An analysis of African Americans",
journal="Sociological focus",
year="1998",
author="Stack, S.",
volume="31",
number="3",
pages="295-302",
abstract="The effect of education level on suicide risk among African Americans is a neglected subject. Gains in educational attainment for African Americans over the lout three decades have not resulted in corresponding gains in economic success, a situation that can promote american suicide. Observers of African American suicide have also argued that middle-class aspirants tend to have weak communal ties or low social integration. A logistic regression analysis of recently released, national individual-level data for 1969 finds that for every year of education the odds of suicide among African American males increase 8 percent. In contrast, for white males each year of education lowers the odds of suicide by 2 percent. For African Americans, the structural imbalance between educational means and economic ends is associated with a positive link between education and suicide. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0038-0237",
doi="10.1080/00380237.1998.10571108",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00380237.1998.10571108"
}