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Stoicism and Sensation Seeking: Male Vulnerabilities for the Acquired Capability for Suicide |
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| Authors: | Witte Tracy K Gordon Kathryn H Smith Phillip N Van Orden Kimberly A |
| Institution: | a Department of Psychology, 226 Thach Hall, Auburn University, AL 36849-5214, United States b Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, NDSU Dept. 276, P.O. Box 6050, Fargo, ND 58108, United States c Department of Psychology, University of South Alabama, Life Sciences Building Room 320, Mobile, AL 3668-002, United States d Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Blvd, Box Psych, Rochester, NY 14642, United States |
| Abstract: | Our aim was to investigate two personality traits (i.e., stoicism and sensation seeking) that may account for well-established gender differences in suicide, within the framework of the interpersonal theory of suicide. This theory proposes that acquired capability for suicide, a construct comprised of pain insensitivity and fearlessness about death, explains gender differences in suicide. Across two samples of undergraduates (N = 185 and N = 363), men demonstrated significantly greater levels of both facets of acquired capability than women. Further, we found that stoicism accounted for the relationship between gender and pain insensitivity, and sensation seeking accounted for the relationship between gender and fearlessness about death. Thus, personality may be one psychological mechanism accounting for gender differences in suicidal behavior. |
| Keywords: | Suicide Stoicism Sensation seeking Gender differences |
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