A comparison of suicide notes written by men and women

Death Studies
David Lester, Antoon Leenaars

Abstract

Previous research using small samples and subjective judgments has failed to identify reliable gender differences in suicide notes. Suicide notes written by 166 women and 513 men collected by Edwin Shneidman were analyzed by the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count computer program. Six significant differences and four trends were identified. The suicide notes written by women had a higher percentage of words found in the dictionary, negations, words indicative of cognitive process, discrepancies and present tense verbs. The suicide notes of women seemed to have more content indicative of hopelessness, defeat-entrapment and falling short of internalized standards.

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Citations

Jun 9, 2018·Archives of Suicide Research : Official Journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research·Gerard NiveauTony Fracasso
Apr 6, 2018·Crisis·Antoon A LeenaarsJennifer Lyke
May 30, 2019·Crisis·Feng LiPaul S F Yip
Jul 3, 2017·Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology·Lucia TattoliClaas T Buschmann
Mar 21, 2017·Death Studies·Dariusz Galasiński
Aug 28, 2018·Current Psychology·Mahboubeh DadfarMohammad Kazem Atef Vahid
Aug 5, 2016·The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery·Suzanne G McLoneKaren Sheehan
Oct 2, 2021·Scientific Reports·Andreia Sofia TeixeiraMassimo Stella

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Software Mentioned

Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count ( LIWC

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