Men have a higher suicide rate than women but women attempt suicide about three times more often than men. Sociologists maintain that the different suicide and suicide-attempt rates reflect all but which one of the following?
a. the pressures placed on men to succeed at suicide.
b. men's greater access to guns and knowledge about how to use them.
c. the most common method of suicide for women is poisoning with drugs, a method that is more likely to fail.
d. men use suicide as the ultimate cry for help
D
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a. rejected b. inhibited c. registered d. internalized
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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