Which statement would the nurse preparing an in-service program on suicide use to explain Durkheim's anomic suicide?
1. Deaths of individuals who were influenced by a group to turn against their own conscience
2. Acts of self-destruction by individuals who have become estranged from im-portant relationships in their groups
3. Self-inflicted deaths based on obedience to a group's goals that override one's own best interests
4. A death resulting from excessive regulation
ANS: 2
Option 1 describes the egoistic subtype of suicide. Option 3 describes an altruistic subtype, and option 4 is the definition of the fatalistic subtype.
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