Marital Status, Alcohol Consumption, and Suicide: an Analysis of National Data

This study reassesses the linkage between marital status & suicide with individual-level data based on a national random sample of 10,906 deaths. Logistic regression indicates that low marital integration significantly increases the odds of dying from suicide, independent of alcohol consumption. Low marital integration also affects suicide indirectly through its association with alcohol consumption. Alcohol consumption is more closely related to risk of suicide than low marital integration.