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Culture matters in suicidal behavior patterns and prevention, psychologist says

August 13, 2010 by

Women and girls in the United States consider and engage in suicidal behavior more often than men and boys, but die of suicide at a lower rate -- a gender paradox enabled by US cultural norms of gender and suicidal behavior, according to a psychologist.

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