(i) General works

Adinkrah, M. (2012). Better dead than dishonored: Masculinity and male suicidal behavior in contemporary Ghana. Social science & medicine, 74(4), 474-481.

Åhlander, A., Strömbäck, M., Sandlund, J., & Wiklund, M. (2023). Living (dys) regulated and alienated young masculinity—Young men's embodied experiences of mental disorders and suicidality. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research.

Alston, M. (2012). Rural male suicide in Australia. Social Science & Medicine, 74(4), 515-522.

Andres, A. R., S. Collings, et al. (2010). Sex-specific impact of socio-economic factors on suicide risk: a population-based case-control study in Denmark. Eur J Public Health 20(3): 265-270.

Andriolo, Karin. (1998). Gender and the Cultural Construction of Good and Bad Suicides. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 28: 37-49.

Apesoa-Varano, E. C., Barker, J. C., & Hinton, L. (2018). “If You Were Like Me, You Would Consider It Too”: Suicide, Older Men, and Masculinity. Society and mental health, 8(2), 157-173.

Bennett, S., Robb, K. A., Adán-González, R., Zortea, T. C., & O’Connor, R. C. (2025a). Exploring Childhood Challenges and Male Suicide Risk: Findings From a Global Survey. The Journal of Men’s Studies, 10608265251329358. 

Bennett, S., Robb, K. A., Adán-González, R., Zortea, T. C., & O’Connor, R. C. (2025). Psychosocial Factors Distinguishing Men Who Have Attempted Suicide From Men With Suicidal Ideation and Non-suicidal Men: Findings From a Global Survey. The Journal of Men’s Studies, 33(1), 30–61. doi:10.1177/10608265241256258

Bennett, S., Robb, K. A., Adán, R., Zortea, T. C., & O’Connor, R. C. (2025). Exploring Childhood Challenges and Male Suicide Risk: Findings From a Global Survey. The Journal of Men’s Studies, 0(0), 10608265251329358. https://doi.org/10.1177/10608265251329358 

Bennett, S., Robb, K. A., Andoh-Arthur, J., Chandler, A., Cleary, A., King, K., . . . Seager, M. (2024). Establishing research priorities for investigating male suicide risk and recovery: A modified Delphi study with lived-experience experts. Psychology of Men & Masculinities, 25(1), 85. 

Bennett, S., Zortea, T., Dickson, A., & Richardson, C. (2023). Male suicide risk and recovery factors: a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis of two decades of research. Psychological Bulletin. 

Bowden, C. (2017). Silence after Suicide: A Phenomenological Study of Young Men’s Experience of Losing a Close Male Friend.

Braswell, Harold & Kushner, Howard I. (2012). Suicide, social integration, and masculinity in the U.S. military. Social Science & Medicine, 74, 530-536.

Canetto, S. S. and I. Sakinofsky. (1998). The gender paradox in suicide. Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, 28(1).

Canetto, S. S., & Cleary, A. (2012). Men, masculinities and suicidal behaviour. Social Science & Medicine, 4(74), 461-465.

Canetto, Silvia Sara. (1997). Meanings of Gender and Suicidal Behavior in Adolescence. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 27: 339-351.

Canetto, Silvia Sara. (2017). Suicide: Why are older men so vulnerable?. Men and Masculinities, 20(1), 49-70.

Chandler, A. (2019). Boys don’t cry? Critical phenomenology, self-harm and suicide. The Sociological Review, 0038026119854863.Chandler, A. (2021). Masculinities and suicide: unsettling ‘talk’ as a response to suicide in men. Critical Public Health, 1-10. doi:10.1080/09581596.2021.1908959

Cleary, A. (2012). Suicidal action, emotional expression, and the performance of masculinities. Social Science & Medicine, 74(4), 498-505.

Cleary, A. (2019). The Gendered Landscape of Suicide: Masculinities, Emotions, and Culture. Springer.

Coleman, D. (2015). Traditional Masculinity as a Risk Factor for Suicidal Ideation: Cross-Sectional and Prospective Evidence from a Study of Young Adults. Archives of Suicide Research, 19(3), 366-384. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2014.957453

Coleman, D., Feigelman, W., & Rosen, Z. (2020). Association of high traditional masculinity and risk of suicide death: Secondary analysis of the Add health study. JAMA psychiatry, 77(4), 435-437.

Coleman, D., Kaplan, M., & Casey, J. (2011). The Social Nature of Male Suicide: A New Analytic Model. International Journal of Men’s Health, 10(3), 240-252 DOI: 10.3149/jmh.1003.240.

Conner, K. R. and D. B. Goldston (2007). Rates of suicide among males increase steadily from age 11 to 21: Developmental framework and outline for prevention. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 12(2): 193-207.

DeCoster, Stacy. (2005). Depression and Law Violation: Gendered Responses to Gendered Stresses. Sociological Perspectives, 48: 155-187.

Dorais, Michael, and Simon L. Lajeunesse (2004). Dead Boys Can’t Dance: Sexual Orientation, Masculinity, and Suicide. McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Easton, Scott, Renner, Lynette, & O’Leary, Patrick. (2013). Suicide attempts among men with histories of child sexual abuse: Examining abuse severity, mental health and masculine norms. Child Abuse & Neglect, 37, 380-387. 

Emslie, Mic. (1996). Ignored to Death: Representations of Young Gay Men, Lesbians and Bisexuals in Australian Youth Suicide Policy and Programs. Youth Studies Australia, December, 15(4).

Ernst, M., Klein, E. M., Beutel, M. E., & Brähler, E. (2021). Gender-specific associations of loneliness and suicidal ideation in a representative population sample: Young, lonely men are particularly at risk. Journal of affective disorders, 294, 63-70. 

Fedorowicz, Valerie J., and Eric Frombonne. (2007). Suicidal Behaviors in a Population-Based Sample of French Youth. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 52: 772-779.

Feigelman, W., Coleman, D., & Rosen, Z. (2021). Examining the social origins and young adult life trajectories of high traditional masculinity (HTM) males: A group at elevated suicide risk. Suicide and Life‐Threatening Behavior, 51(4), 696-714. 

Fitzpatrick, S. J., Brew, B. K., Handley, T., & Perkins, D. (2022). Men, suicide, and family and interpersonal violence: A mixed methods exploratory study. Sociology of Health & Illness, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13476 

Flood, M. (2007) Suicide. In The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. Ed. M. Flood, J.K. Gardiner, B. Pease, and K. Pringle. Taylor & Francis.

Frawley, Margaret. (1998). Suicide and Depression in Males of Various Ages: A Rural Perspective. Paper to National Forum on Men and Family Relationships, Canberra, 9-11 June.

Galvez-Sánchez, C. M., Camacho-Ruiz, J. A., Castelli, L., & Limiñana-Gras, R. M. (2024). Exploring the Role of Masculinity in Male Suicide: A Systematic Review. Psychiatry International, 6(1), 2. 

Garnham, B., & Bryant, L. (2014). Problematising the suicides of older male farmers: Subjective, social and cultural considerations. Sociologia ruralis, 54(2), 227-240.

Genuchi, M. C. (2019). Masculinity and Suicidal Desire in a Community Sample of Homeless Men: Bringing Together Masculinity and the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide. The Journal of Men’s Studies, 27(3), 329-342. 

Gilchrist, H. E., Howarth, G. & Sullivan, G. (2007). The cultural context of youth suicide in Australia: unemployment, identity and gender. Social Policy and Society, 6 (2), 151-163.

Girard, Chris. (1993). Age, Gender and Suicide: A Cross-National Analysis. American Sociological Review, Vol. 58: 553-574.

Gunnell, D., N. Middleton, E. Whitley, D. Dorling, and S. Frankel. (2003). Why are suicide rates rising in young men but falling in the elderly?--a time-series analysis of trends in England and Wales 1950-1998. Social Science & Medicine, 57(4): 595-611.

Hempstead, K., Nguyen, T., David-Rus, R., & Jacquemin, B. (2013). Health problems and male firearm suicide. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 43, 1-16.

Hogan, A., Scarr, E., Lockie, S., Chant, B., & Alston, S. (2012). Ruptured identity of male farmers subjective crisis and the risk of suicide. J. Rural Soc. Sci, 27, 118-140.

Hunt, K., H. Sweeting, M. Keoghan, and S. Platt. (2006). Sex, gender role orientation, gender role attitudes and suicidal thoughts in three generations. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 41(8).

Jones, F., Verity, L., Panayiotou, M., & Qualter, P. (2023). A review of evidence on the link between masculinity, loneliness, and suicide as observed in social media discussions. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 5, 100129. 

Jordan, A. (2019). Postfeminist Men’s Movements: The Campaign Against Living Miserably and Male Suicide as ‘Crisis’. In The New Politics of Fatherhood (pp. 165-191). Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Jordan, A., & Chandler, A. (2019). Crisis, what crisis? A feminist analysis of discourse on masculinities and suicide. Journal of Gender Studies, 28(4), 462-474.

Joyce, E., Pratt, D., & Lea, J. (2024). Men’s perspectives on the relationship between masculinities and suicidality: A thematic synthesis. Psychology of Men & Masculinities

Khan, A. R., Dery, I., & Helman, R. (2021). Masculinity and Men’s Suicide Attempts in Bangladesh. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 1-19. doi:10.1080/15325024.2021.1987037

Khan, A. R., Ratele, K., & Arendse, N. (2020). Men, Suicide, and Covid-19: Critical Masculinity Analyses and Interventions. Postdigital Science and Education, 2(3), 651-656. doi:10.1007/s42438-020-00152-1

King, K., Burley, A., Seidler, Z., Armstrong, G., & Vijayakumar, L. (2024). What psychologists need to know about men and suicide. Australian Psychologist, 59(6), 487-495. 

King, T. L., Shields, M., Sojo, V., Daraganova, G., Currier, D., O’Neil, A., ... & Milner, A. (2020). Expressions of masculinity and associations with suicidal ideation among young males. BMC Psychiatry, 20, 1-10.

Kõlves, K., E-K. Kumpula, And D. De Leo. (2007). Suicidal behaviours in men: determinants and prevention in Australia. Brisbane: Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention.

Lester, D., Gunn, J. F., & Quinnett, P. (2014). Suicide in Men: how men differ from women in expressing their distress. Charles C Thomas Publisher.

Lillian, M.R., and M.L. Mark. (1998). Gender, culture, and suicidal behavior: A feminist critique of theories and research. Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, 28(1).

Lynne Armstrong, L., and I. Manion. (2006). Suicidal ideation in young males living in rural communities: Distance from school as a risk factor, youth engagement as a protective factor. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, 1(1): 102-113.

Mac an Ghaill, M. and Haywood, C. (2012) Understanding Boys: Thinking through boys, masculinity and suicide. Social Science and Medicine, 74(4): 482-89.

Macdonald, D., Nicolopoulos, A., Habak, S., Christensen, H., & Boydell, K. (2024). Suicidal emotions, motivations and rationales in Australian men: a qualitative exploration. Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 11, 23333936241242915. 

Macdonald, Ron, and Trudi Cooper. (1998). Young Gay Men and Suicide. Youth Studies Australia, December.

MacIsaac, M. B., Bugeja, L. C., & Jelinek, G. A. (2017). The association between exposure to interpersonal violence and suicide among women: a systematic review. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 41(1), 61-69. 

Mansdotter, A., Lundin, A., Falkstedt, D., & Hemmingsson, T. (2009). The association between masculinity rank and mortality patterns: A prospective study based on the Swedish 1969 conscript cohort. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 63, 408–413.

Masocco, M., M. Pompili, et al. (2010). Completed Suicide and Marital Status According to the Italian Region of Origin. Psychiatric Quarterly, 81(1): 57-71.

Mathieu, S., Ross, V., Wardhani, R., Brough, P., Wishart, D., Chan, X. W., & Kõlves, K. (2022). Suicide among transport industry workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 48(8), 598-610.

Meissner, B., Bantjes, J., & Kagee, A. (2016). I would rather just go through with it than be called a wussy: An exploration of how a group of young South African men think and talk about suicide. American journal of men’s health, 10(4), 338-348.

Milner, A., & King, T. (2019). Men’s work, women’s work and suicide: a retrospective mortality study in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 43(1), 27-32.

Möller-Leimkühler, A.M. (2003). The gender gap in suicide and premature death or: why are men so vulnerable? European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 253(1): 1-8.

Morrell, Stephen, Andrew N. Page, and Richard J. Taylor. (2007). The decline in Australian young male suicide. Social Science and Medicine, v. 64 no. 3 Feb: 747-754.

Nicholas, A., Krysinska, K., & King, K. E. (2022). A rapid review to determine the suicide risk and risk factors of men who are survivors of sexual assault. Psychiatry research, 114847.

Nicholas, Jonathan, and John Howard. (1998). Better Dead Than Gay? Depression, Suicide Ideation and Attempt Among a Sample of Gay and Straight-Identified Males Aged 18 to 24. Youth Studies Australia, v.17 n.4, pp. 28-33.

O’Donnell, S., Egan, T., Clarke, N., & Richardson, N. (2024). Prevalence and associated risk factors for suicidal ideation, non-suicidal self-injury and suicide attempt among male construction workers in Ireland. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 1263. doi:10.1186/s12889-024-18483-0

O’Leary, P. and N. Gould (2009). Men Who Were Sexually Abused in Childhood and Subsequent Suicidal Ideation: Community Comparison, Explanations and Practice Implications. Br J Soc Work, 39(5): 950-968.

Oliffe, J. L., Creighton, G., Robertson, S., Broom, A., Jenkins, E. K., Ogrodniczuk, J. S., & Ferlatte, O. (2017). Injury, Interiority, and Isolation in Men’s Suicidality. American Journal of Men’s Health, 11(4), 888-899.

Oliffe, J. L., Kelly, M. T., Montaner, G. G., Links, P. S., Kealy, D., & Ogrodniczuk, J. S. (2021). Segmenting or summing the parts? A scoping review of male suicide research in Canada. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 66(5), 433-445. 

Oliffe, J. L., Ogrodniczuk, J. S., Bottorff, J. L., Johnson, J. L., & Hoyak, K. (2012). “You feel like you can’t live anymore”: Suicide from the perspectives of Canadian men who experience depression. Social Science & Medicine, 74, 506–514.

Page, A., R. Taylor, et al. (2010). Recent declines in Australian male suicide are real, not artefactual. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 44(4): 358-363.

Payne, Sarah, Viren Swami, and Debbi L. Stanistreet. (2008). The social construction of gender and its influence on suicide: a review of the literature. Journal of Men’s Health, 5(1), March.

Phillips, C., and M.F. Robert. (2001). The relative gender gap in suicide: Societal integration, the culture of suicide, and period effects in 20 developed countries, 1955-1994. Social Science Research, 30(1): 76.

Pirkis, Jane, Matthew J. Spittal, Louise Keogh, Tass Mousaferiadis, and Dianne Currier. (2017). Masculinity and suicidal thinking. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 52, no. 3: 319-327.

Pitman, A., Krysinska, K., Osborn, D., & King, M. (2012). Suicide in young men. The Lancet, 379, 2383–2392.

Range, Lillian M., and Mark M. Leach. (1998). Gender, Culture, and Suicidal Behavior: A Feminist Critique of Theories and Research. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 28: 24-36.

Rasmussen, M. L., Haavind, H., & Dieserud, G. (2018). Young men, masculinities, and suicide. Archives of suicide research, 22(2), 327-343.

Rice, T. R. (2015). Violence among young men: the importance of a gender-specific developmental approach to adolescent male suicide and homicide. Int J Adolesc Med Health, 27(2), 177-181.

Richardson, C. (2021). Towards an enhanced understanding of suicide risk in men. University of Glasgow,

Richardson, C., Robb, K. A., & O'Connor, R. C. (2021). A systematic review of suicidal behaviour in men: A narrative synthesis of risk factors. Social Science & Medicine, 276, 113831. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113831

Ridge, D., Smith, H., Fixsen, A., Broom, A., & Oliffe, J. (2021). How men step back–and recover–from suicide attempts: A relational and gendered account. Sociology of Health & Illness, 43(1), 238-252.

River, J. (2014). Suicide and Hegemonic Masculinity in Australian Men. In David Lester, John F. Gunn, Paul Quinnett (eds.), Suicide in Men: How Men Differ from Women in Expressing Their Distress, (pp. 248-261). Springfield, IL, USA: Charles C. Thomas Publisher.

River, J. (2018). Diverse and Dynamic Interactions: A Model of Suicidal Men’s Help Seeking as It Relates to Health Services. American Journal of Men’s Health, 12(1), 150-159.

River, J., and M. Fisher. (2014). Dying to be a man: Towards an understanding of the relationship between masculinity and male suicidal behaviour. Journal of Men’s Health, 7(3), 285-285. 

Ross, V., Mathieu, S., Wardhani, M. R., Gullestrup, M. J., & Kõlves, K. (2022). Suicidal ideation and related factors in construction industry apprentices. Journal of affective disorders, 297, 294-300. 

Rowell, K.L., B.L. Green, J. Guidry, and J. Eddy. (2008). Factors associated with suicide among African American adult men: a systematic review of the literature. Journal of Men’s Health, 5(4).

Roy, Alec, and Melvin Janal. (2006). Gender in Suicide Attempt Rates and Childhood Sexual Abuse Rates: Is There an Interaction? Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 36: 329-335.

Rudmin, F.W., M. Ferrada-Noli, and J.-A. Skolbekken. (2003). Questions of culture, age and gender in the epidemiology of suicide. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 44(4): 373-381.Russell, S. T., & Toomey, R. B. (2012). Men’s sexual orientation and suicide: Evidence for US adolescent-specific risk. Social Science & Medicine, 74(4), 523-529

Rutz, Wolfgang, and Zoltan Rihmer. (2007). Suicidality in men – practical issues, challenges, solutions. Journal of Men’s Health and Gender, 4(4), December.

Sarma, K. and S. Kola. (2010). Firearms, Hanging, and Drowning Suicides in the Republic of Ireland. Crisis: Journal of Crisis Intervention & Suicide 31(2): 69-75.

Scourfield, J. (2005). Suicidal masculinities. Sociological Research Online, 10(2).

Seidler, Z. E., Wilson, M. J., Oliffe, J. L., Fisher, K., O’Connor, R., Pirkis, J., & Rice, S. M. (2023). Suicidal ideation in men during COVID-19: an examination of protective factors. BMC psychiatry, 23(1), 46. doi:10.1186/s12888-023-04539-9

Seidler, Z. E., Wilson, M. J., Oliffe, J. L., Kealy, D., Toogood, N., Ogrodniczuk, J. S., & Rice, S. M. (2021). “Eventually, I Admitted, ‘I Cannot Do This Alone’”: Exploring Experiences of Suicidality and Help-Seeking Drivers Among Australian Men. Frontiers in Sociology, 178. 

Smalley, N., J. Scourfield, and K. Greenland. (2005). Young People, Gender and Suicide: A Review of Research on the Social Context. Journal of Social Work, 5(2): 133-154.

Southworth, P. M. (2016). Hegemonic masculinity and suicide: A review of the literature. European Health Psychologist, 18(1), 7-12. 

Stack, S. (1998). Gender, marriage, and suicide acceptability: A comparative analysis. Sex Roles, 38(7/8): 501.

Stack, Steven, and Ira Wasserman. (2009). Gender and Suicide Risk: The Role of Wound Site. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 39: 13-20.

Wilson, M. J., Mansour, K., Seidler, Z. E., Oliffe, J. L., Rice, S. M., Sharp, P., . . . Macdonald, J. A. (2025). Intimate partner relationship breakdown and suicidal ideation in a large representative cohort of Australian men. Journal of affective disorders, 372, 618-626. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.12.071

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