Association of High Traditional Masculinity and Risk of Suicide Death

[Michael Scally MD]

Association of High Traditional Masculinity and Risk of Suicide Death: Secondary Analysis of the Add Health Study

In the United States, men die by suicide at 3.5 times the rate of women. One driver of this gender disparity may be high traditional masculinity (HTM), a set of norms that includes competitiveness, emotional restriction, and aggression. Quantitative studies of HTM are interrelated with discourse on hegemonic masculinity. Using norm- and trait-based measures, HTM men were found to have higher suicidal ideation (SI), but to our knowledge, the association with suicide death has not been tested with a credible measure of HTM.

Coleman D, Feigelman W, Rosen Z. Association of High Traditional Masculinity and Risk of Suicide Death: Secondary Analysis of the Add Health Study. JAMA Psychiatry. Published online February 12, 2020. Association of High Traditional Masculinity and Risk of Suicide Death

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Men who closely aligned with masculinity norms were more than twice as likely to die by suicide as men who did not, researchers reported.

In a group of adolescents followed through adulthood, "high-traditional masculinity" men -- or those with at least a 73% probability of being male based on their responses to questions about things like not crying, physical fitness, and fighting -- were more likely to die by suicide than men who did not identify as strongly with such norms (OR. 2.4, 95% CI 0.99-6.0, P=0.046), reported Daniel Coleman, PhD, of Fordham University in New York City, and colleagues.

So-called high-traditional masculinity men were also 1.45 times less likely to report suicidal ideation (95% CI 0.60-0.81, P<0.001), the team wrote in a JAMA Psychiatry research letter.

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[kosp]

this sounds like the devastating feelings you get when you first experience erectile dysfunction at 17 years old, not worth as a human being if you cannot wreck vaginas (lol)

 

[Rosconow]

The feminists will love this.....

 

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Men who closely aligned with masculinity norms were more than twice as likely to die by suicide as men who did not, researchers reported.

Whose 'traditional masculinity' norms? LOL Oh, and a study based on 22 suicides. [ Whatever happened to the Statistical Processing requirements of n > 32 before any meaning can be attributed? (and that is the bare minimum) ]

Yes, the passive, the apathetic, the pot heads, the unambitious, the pot-bellied porn addicts, gender altering ... they don't commit suicide. Unless these are embraced as 'traditional'.

Now, if you have goals and want to achieve something ... Watch out! You might just ring your own neck.