Citation

Lester D. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 1988; 18(4): 372-378.

Affiliation

Psychology Program, Stockton State College, Pomona, NJ 08240.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3217964

Abstract

An earlier study (Lester, 1984) found that, in the United States, cohorts that had a high suicide rate at one point in their life span had low suicide rates at other points, and vice versa. This result suggested that only a limited number of people in each cohort were suicide-prone. The present paper replicates this result, using Canadian data from 1921 to the present time.