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231) Men are most likely to use ________ in their suicide attempts. A) their cars B) poison C) a drug overdose D) guns 232) Women are most likely to use ________ in their suicide attempts. A) razor blades B) drugs C) guns D) hanging 233) When the facts that men are more likely than women to have a history of drug and alcohol abuse and less likely to have children in the home are taken into account and controlled for, the suicide rate for men ________. A) is still much higher for men than it is for women B) is only moderately higher for men than it is for women C) is just the same for men as it is for women D) is actually lower for men than it is for women 234) The majority of suicides are apparently connected with ________. A) conversion disorder B) depression C) schizophrenia D) adjustment disorder 235) Which of the following is NOT true of people who attempt or commit suicide? A) Suicide attempts frequently follow “exit events.” B) People who consider suicide in response to stressful events have poorer problem-solving skills than those who do not contemplate suicide in similarly stressful situations. C) Suicide usually suggests the presence of severe personality disorders, such as antisocial or paranoid personality. D) Many people who take their lives are alcoholics. 236) Sociologist Emile Durkheim (1958) noted that people who experience ______, that is, who feel lost, without identity, rootless, are more likely to commit suicide. A) negative expectancies B) disidentification C) anomie D) stress 237) According to classic psychodynamic theorists, suicide represents a reaction to ________. A) negative outcome expectancies B) the perception that life has become meaningless, dull, empty, and hopeless C) anger, which has reached the point of murderous rage, turned inward D) the effects of stress, seeing no viable solution to unavoidable problems, and prolonged depression 238) In his later writings, Sigmund Freud related suicide to ________. A) a collapse of the id leading to destructive dominance of a guilt-ridden superego B) the effects of stress and external social forces C) the perception that life has become meaningless, dull, empty, and hopeless D) an inborn death instinct 239) Humanistic theorists see suicide as a reaction to ________. A) negative outcome expectancies B) the perception that life has become meaningless, dull, empty, and hopeless C) anger, which has reached the point of murderous rage, turned inward D) the effects of stress and external social forces 240) Sociocultural thinkers, such as Emile Durkheim, see suicide as largely a reaction to ________. A) alienation and isolation resulting from today’s lifestyle B) negative outcome expectancies C) anger, which has reached the point of murderous rage, turned inward D) the effects of stress and previous suicide attempts