Year: 2014 Source: Social Science & Medicine.(2014).120:269Ð277. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.007 SIEC No: 20140531

This study investigated whether state levels of social capital are associated with rates of completed suicides in the fifty U.S. states. The results showed that White men and women in states with higher levels of social capital had significantly lower rates of suicide when controlling for the other influential variables. When we examined sub-dimensions of social capital, we found that community organizations (for White women) and group membership (for White men) were particularly strongly associated with lower suicide risk.