Year: 2020 Source: JAMA Psychiatry. (2020). Published online 12 February 2020. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.4702 SIEC No: 20200183

This cohort study explores the association between high traditional masculinity and suicide death among US men using data from the Add Health study.  In the United States, men die by suicide at 3.5 times the rate of women.1 One driver of this gender disparity may be high traditional masculinity (HTM), a set of norms that includes competitiveness, emotional restriction, and aggression.2 Quantitative studies of HTM are interrelated with discourse on hegemonic masculinity.3 Using norm- and trait-based measures, HTM men were found to have higher suicidal ideation (SI),2,4 but to our knowledge, the association with suicide death has not been tested with a credible measure of HTM.