Does having offspring reduce the risk of suicide in women?

International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-29

  Driver, Katie ^a   Abed, Riadh T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ROTHERHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Darwinian theory; Females; Offspring; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SUICIDE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 1542724653     PISSN: 13651501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13651500310004506     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Hamilton DW (1964) The genetical evolution of social behaviour I&II. J Theor Biol 7: 1-52.
2. deCatanzaro D (1980) Human suicide: a biological perspective. Behav Brain Sci 3: 265-90.
3. deCatanzaro D (1991) Evolutionary limits to self-preservation. Ethol Sociobiol 12: 12-28.
4. Abed RT (1997) Suicide as altruism. Ir J Psychol Med 14: 144-6.
5. Hawton K (2000) Gender differences in suicidal behaviour. Br J Psychiatry 177: 546-50.
6. Appleby L (2000) Suicide in women. Lancet 355: 1215-20.
7. Durkheim E (1897) Le Suicide. Paris: Felix Alcan.
8. Hoyer G, Lund E (1993) Suicide among women related to number of children in marriage. Arch Gen Psychiatry 50: 134-7.
9. Appleby L (1991) Suicide during pregnancy and in the first postnatal year. Br Med J 302: 137-40.
10. Qin P, Agerbo E, Westergard-Nielson N, Eriksson T, Mortensen PB (2000) Gender differences in risk factors for suicide in Denmark. Br J Psychiatry 177: 546-50.
11. Abed RT, Baker I (1998) A comparison between OPCS and coroner's data on suicide and undetermined deaths in an English health district. Int J Psych Clin Pract 2: 209-14.
12. Abed RT, Vaidya G, Baker I (2000) Suicide in schizophrenia: a fourteen-year survey in an English health district. Int J Psych Clin Pract 4: 143-6.
13. South Yorkshire Population Census (1991) Part 1.
14. Office for National Statistics Website. http://www.ons.gov.uk/
15. Veevers JE (1973) Parenthood and suicide: an examination of a neglected variable. Soc Sci Med 7: 135-44.
16. Kposowa AJ (2000) Marital status and suicide in the National Longitudinal Mortality Study. J Epidemiol Community Health 54: 254-61.
17. Nisbet PA (1996) Protective factors for suicidal black females. Suicide Life Threat Behav 26: 325-41.
18. Brown RM, Dahlen E, Mills C, Rick J, Biblarz A (1999) Evaluation of an evolutionary model of self-preservation and self-destruction. Suicide Life Threat Behav 29: 58-71.
19. Miller JS, Segal DL, Coolidge FL (2001) A comparison of suicidal thinking and reasons for living among younger and older adults. Death Studies 25: 357-65.
20. Plutchik R, van Praag HM (1994) Suicide risk: amplifiers and attenuators.. In: The Psychobiology of Aggression. New York: Harworth Press.
21. Beck AJ, Steer RA, Kovacs M, Garrison B (1985) Hopelessness and eventual suicide: a ten-year prospective study of patients hospitalized with suicidal ideation. Am J Psychiatry 142: 559-63.
22. Steer RA, Kumar G, Beck AT (1993) Self-reported suicide ideation in adolescent psychiatric inpatients. J Consult Clin Psychol 61: 1096-9.