Does anyone have any good recommendations for assessing rates of suicidality amongst short men?

Sydnaktik · 2024-04-26T12:02:54+00:00

I asked Scholar GPT (a Chat GPT plugin) the only thing it really found was from 2005:

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.162.7.1373

The real question we're trying to answer is whether society's treatment of short men is causing them undue stress with ramifications including suicide. Personally, I think social science is simply not capable of properly answering these kinds of questions.

The study I linked does give some credence to the hypothesis, but there may be many other explanations.

One tactic feminists have developed to sidestep the issue of the inadequacy of social science is to talk in term of "equity", as in, let's not waste time understanding why there is inequality, let's just fix it (by throwing resources at the affected group). Unless the affected group is men, then they ignore it because it would go counter to "what we [the feminists] are trying to do".

Multi_Orgasmic_Man · 2024-04-26T15:27:24+00:00

There are studies which I am linking for you:

Physical stature and method-specific attempted suicide: cohort study of one million men
Strong inverse association between height and suicide in a large cohort of Swedish men: evidence of early life origins of suicidal behavior?

Key findings:
"In age-adjusted analyses, the tallest men had a 40% (37%, 43%) reduction in hazard when compared to the shortest men and a SD increase in height was associated with a 16% (15%, 18%) decrease in risk of attempted suicide."

"The strong inverse association between height and suicide may signify the importance of childhood exposure in the etiology of adult mental disorder or reflect stigmatization or discrimination encountered by short men in their adult lives."

Your intuition is correct; being taller reduces the risk of self-harm for men.

As an aside, if you want to find stuff like this your google search should be "study <topic here>". I used "study male suicide height"

overcooked780 · 2024-04-26T20:34:01+00:00

I'd like to see one for balding men, too.. Something that I feel has really driven me to the brink more than anything.

Dashing2026 · 2024-04-26T12:24:05+00:00

A bit off-topic to the question and I speak anecdotally, I notice through movies, social media, and talk shows that it's become less socially acceptable to make fun of people because of their height.

Title	Does anyone have any good recommendations for assessing rates of suicidality amongst short men?
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