Which of the following statements about the relationship between economic conditions and suicide is TRUE?

a) Suicide rates are higher in affluent societies than in poor ones.
b) Suicide rates are about the same from society to society, regardless of affluence or poverty.
c) African Americans, whose poverty rate is relatively higher, are more likely to kill themselves than are whites, who have a lower poverty rate.
d) Blacks and whites have about the same rate of suicide.


a) Suicide rates are higher in affluent societies than in poor ones.

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