TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - Education and risk of suicide: An analysis of African Americans
JO  - Sociological focus
A1  - Stack, S.
SP  - 295
EP  - 302
VL  - 31
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0038-0237
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00380237.1998.10571108
ID  - ref1
ER  -