Washington, Aug 31 (ANI): A study has revealed that men are nearly twice as likely as women to use methods that mutilate the face or head when committing suicide.
Women, on the other hand, are more likely than men to avoid any facial disfiguration when taking their own lives.
Valerie Callanan from the University of Akron and Mark Davis from the Criminal Justice Research Centre at the Ohio State University, USA, show that there are marked gender differences in the use of suicide methods that disfigure the face or head.
Callanan and Davis examined the medical examiner's files of 621 suicide cases in Summit County, Ohio in the US, covering a 10-year period (1997-2006) and found that women were significantly less likely than men to use suicide methods with the potential to disfigure the face or head.
The researchers also found that for every one-unit increase in blood alcohol level, the odds of using a disfiguring method increased by nearly 10 percent.
"To suggest that women are less likely to shoot themselves in the face or head because they are more concerned about their appearance than men is to minimize the significance of the act of suicide. What we do know is that those experiencing stressful life events are at far greater risk of employing an especially lethal method of suicide than those not experiencing such events," the authors concluded.
The study is published online in Springer's journal Sex Roles. (ANI)
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