Female labor force participation and suicide

To test the role conflict and role enhancement hypotheses, this paper examines the link between female labor force participation and suicide. Using a special tabulation of age/sex-specific suicide data for metropolitan areas in the United States, we estimate separate multivariate regression models f...

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Published in:Social science & medicine (1982) 1997-06, Vol.44 (12), p.1847-1859
Main Authors: Burr, Jeffrey A., McCall, Patricia L., Powell-Griner, Eve
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Biological and medical sciences
Conflict (Psychology)
Factors
Female
Females
Gender Identity
Humans
Labor force
Labor Force Participation
Labour force participation
Male
Males
Marital Status
Medical sciences
Models, Psychological
Mothers - psychology
Multivariate Analysis
Population Surveillance
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Regression Analysis
Role Conflict
role enhancement
Role theory
sex
Sex Distribution
Sex Roles
Suicide
Suicide - psychology
Suicide - statistics & numerical data
Suicide - trends
suicide sex work role conflict role enhancement
Suicides & suicide attempts
United States - epidemiology
United States of America
Urban Health
Women
Women workers
Women, Working - psychology
Women, Working - statistics & numerical data
work
Working Women
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Summary:To test the role conflict and role enhancement hypotheses, this paper examines the link between female labor force participation and suicide. Using a special tabulation of age/sex-specific suicide data for metropolitan areas in the United States, we estimate separate multivariate regression models for women and men in 1970 and 1980. Our findings show that in 1970 the level of female labor force participation among married women with small children is not related to the female suicide rate but is related to the male suicide rate in a positive direction. By 1980 the relationship between female labor force participation and the male and female suicide rate is negative, suggesting that the well-being of both men and women is enhanced by role accumulation among women.
ISSN:0277-9536
1873-5347
DOI:10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00294-8